Are you stil ltrying to solve this problem? Is your Teach-Student edition
Office XP (2002) or 2003? Using an Excel XP/2003 data source with Word 2000
may well cause problems.

Typically, for a directory, you need to specify that the merge type is
Catalog (Word 2000) or Directory (Word XP/2003). In Word 2000 you can do
that in the first step in the Mail merge helper. In Word XP/2003 it is
usually easiest to enable the Mail merge toolbar (Word Tools|Customize) then
select the merge type using the first button in the toolbar.

When you create a catalog (or directory) type merge, you should lay out the
fields how you want and /not/ use any Next Record fields. You would
typically have a blank paragraph at the end of your mail merge main
document. When Word merges, it should produce a new document that does not
have ppage breaks of any kind between the records.

If you really need to use a label type merge, then you do have to copy the
fields you have placed - each label in your layout needs its own copy of
those fields. There should be one Next record field before each "label"
except the first one.

Peter Jamieson