AddCatalogMergeArea Method [Publisher 2003 VBA Language Reference]

Adds a Shape object that represents the specified publication's catalog merge area.

expression.AddCatalogMergeArea

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

Only one catalog merge area can be added to a publication page. Typically, a publication will only have one catalog merge area.

Although you can add one catalog merge area per publication page, you can only connect to a single data source for a publication. What data is merged is determined by the catalog merge area on the active page, and the data fields it contains.

Use the AddToCatalogMergeArea method of the Shape or ShapeRange objects to add shapes to a catalog merge area.

Use the Insert method of the MailMergeDataFields collection to add a picture data field to a publication's catalog merge area.

Use the InsertMailMergeField method of the TextRange object to add a text data field to a text box in the publication's catalog merge area.

Use the RemoveCatalogMergeArea method of the Shape object to remove a catalog merge area from a publication.

This method corresponds to selecting a catalog merge in Step 1: Select a merge type of the Mail and Catalog Merge Wizard.

Example

The following example adds a catalog merge area to the first page of the specified publication.

ThisDocument.Pages(1).Shapes.AddCatalogMergeArea

Applies to | Shapes Collection