Word 2010 / Adobe PDFMaker Trial Mail Merge and ZWAdobeF, 1 PT Character
Does anyone know why the Adobe Acrobat X PDMaker add-in for Word 2010 puts anin the front of the first merge field during a mail merge? The merge works perfectly to create a .PDF, but I am a bit concerned that this will occur when we shell out some $$$ to use it to send 15,000 insurance cards to our student population. The character is unprintable, and cannot be seen, but shifts the field over 1 pt everytime we merge. If this happens 15,000 times our mail merge will not work. Of course, the trial version of the software can only merge 1 record at a time. Perhaps this is a not so sneaky way to stop trial users from actually using the software to send out 15,000 pieces for 'free'. That would not be cool.
Which version of Word 2010... 32bit or 64bit?
Unless a recent update has fixed the problem(s) Acrobat is not fully compatible with Word 2010 64bit
Acrobat X MS Office 2010 http://forums.adobe.com/thread/884628?tstart=0
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