Hi Frank,
> Is there a way of stopping Word updating the merged data
> every time you click forward and previous? It is taking a
> long time to scan backwards through 2500-odd records.
>
> Ideally I want the merge to update only once.
Unfortunately, no, that's not how Word's mail merge works.
It's a PITA, and has been for well over a decade.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word
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