That's what I meant by "static" links, i.e. the ones that the article does
/not/ talk about.

However, there's an another article at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287004/en-us

that discusses mmerge to email with Word XP which /might/ shed some light on
this. What it says is that
a. when you merge a "web page" to email, the hyperlinks disappear (as you
describe)
b. to work around, you have to save as a single-page microsoft .mht format
"web page" and merge it as an attachment
c. the "problem" (and I have to assume the specific one they describe)  is
fixed in Word XP SP3

There is also an article at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813673/en-us

which might have to be applied as well.

So what I'm wondering is whether trhe merge would actually work if you saved
your mail merge main document as a web page (i.e. .htm, not .mht) rather
than a .doc, then do the merge as normal. (The article also assumes you are
trying to merge using HTML format). The thing is that none of the stuff that
Word can do in .doc format, such as headers and footers, will get through an
e-mail merge anyway, so you probably would not lose by saving as .htm first.

I can't check this right now, but if that doesn't work, my only other
suggestion is that if merging using the technique described in the article I
previously mentioned actually works, then perhaps it is worth trying to
create your static links as if they wer dynamic links, e.g., instead of
their example

{ HYPERLINK { MERGEFIELD "Address1" } \*Mergeformat }

you could try

{ HYPERLINK { QUOTE "your hyperlink text" } \*Mergeformat }

or maybe

{ SET myhl "your hyperlink text" }{ HYPERLINK { REF mylt } \*Mergeformat }

If any of the above do work, please post back.

Peter Jamieson