Thanks for your help Rene, i  incorporated your suggestions into the workflow , but the Update word doc function doesn't seem to be updating the word doc and there is an option to convert to a PDF, which just seems to write xml connection string data out to the PDF .

Your suggestion of creating an electronic document does create a doc, but just the Update Word doc mail merge doesnt work. 

Any suggestions anyone. 

Thanks Rene.  Your posted helped me figure out how to activate this function!

Well I have not played with this new feature yet, but just thinking. Did you make your entry file the word Template? when you do the update word doc activity, did you choose the good entry to do the modification, maybe your entry is not the word Template but the forms save file?

means you seem to do a search for a document in the student folder, but I did not see any find entry to look for the word Template that you want to modify. So you need to find the word Template and use that find entry as the source of your update word doc activity and also use it in the email4 activity as the source entry to send it by email.

Ian,

your source activity in the update word document should be the create entry.

I will try it on my side and let you know if I can make it work

I did some test, and I did not see any update from my document, and even if I use a direct attachment from the server, I do not see where it saves the new word modified documents.

It does not work. Do we need to have office installed on the workflow server?

That worked great Rene, thank you for your assitance

Thanks for your work guys  My workflow is up and running.