Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Locating Locked Fields.
Fields are very useful when working with a document—they allow you to place "dynamic" information in your documents. Sometimes you may want a field to remain static; to not change. You can do this by selecting the field and press Ctrl+F11. This "locks" the field so it does not update from its current value.
If you have a lot of fields in a document, and some of them are locked, you may want a way to quickly find out which ones are locked. Word has no special feature that allows you to search for locked fields, but you can create a macro that will search them out for you. The following macro, FindLocked, starts at the beginning of a document and finds locked fields. It selects each locked field, in turn, and asks you if you want to continue searching.
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 
Sub FindLocked()
Dim iField As Integer
Dim vResponse As Variant
For iField = 1 To ActiveDocument.Fields.Count
If ActiveDocument.Fields(iField).Locked Then
ActiveDocument.Fields(iField).Select
vResponse = MsgBox("Continue Searching?", vbYesNo)
If vResponse = vbNo Then Exit For
End If
Next iField
End Sub
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2015-03-13 15:49:19
Paul
I found it, a way to continue.
After the doc.MailMerge and
before the wrdapp.ActiveDocument.Printout
add
If wrdapp.ActiveDocument.Name = "Mail Merge Errors1" Then
wrdapp.ActiveDocument.Close False
End If
and the offending doc disappears.
2015-03-13 15:27:34
Paul
Great macro.
But when I added a line --
ActiveDocument.Fields(iField).Locked = False
it had no effect. Is there a way to automate turning off the Lock?
Or is there a way to suppress the page "Word found locked fields..." from ever printing?
tkx, Paul
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