The following article may be relevant, even though it discusses Word 97:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224697/en-us
Peter Jamieson
> When I use mailmerge w/ Word 2000 more than one "copy" of Specified ACCESS
> mdb is opened. They are the correct mdb just more than one copy the
> specified
> mdb is opened. Typically it is 8 copies of mdb for only one record.