You said Outlook Express in your Subject and Outlook in your message. Which
is it? Mail merges only work with Outlook. If you are using Outlook, you
would need to provide a great deal more information for anyone to help you:
versions, exact steps used, etc.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
> Everytime I attempt to set-up a mail merge using my contact list from
> outlook
> I receive and error message and my document closes. Any idea why this
> happens and can I fix this problem?