Hi Stuart,

Word's mailmerge facility copes with surnames & given names in separate data
fields quite easily; in fact it's probably better to have your data organised
that way for other purposes, such as the sorting you propose. Once you've got
your database set up and populated, it's a simple matter in Word to have a
mailmerge field for the given names, followed by another mailmerge field for
the surname.

For more information, see 'Creating a Mail Merge Data Source', at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateADataSource.htm
and 'How to create a Mail Merge', at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm

For Word XP and later, also see 'Mailmerge Labels with Word XP', at:
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

Cheers