I have a textbox in my PSM file where I copy text from MS Word.

When I try to insert a database field i the same textbox afterwords it just shows the database field/variable name - not the value from the database?

Why is this?

The copied text had an email address and the @ in the address was interpreted as a variable...

kingebri,

If you had an email in the text and it was interpreted as a variable, it may explain why the rest of the variables weren't correctly interpreted.

Perhaps what you could do is change the character of the variable marker from @ to something else (for example, a pipe | or some other rarely-used character like ± or ¤ or whatever). You can have a different "start" and "end" marker too, so you could do [variable] or {variable} too! You'll need to change any existing variables in your documents though.

The variable marker can be changed in Edit, Preferences, Program.