Hi Chris,

This is the response from fellow MVP Cindy Meister to the post from Jean
Pereira with the subject "Merge Word XP and Excel XP" dated 10/01/2004.

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Hi Jean,

Is this the same merge document, or a newly-created merge?
In Office 2000, when you opened such a saved mail merge
document did it also open Excel? (I'm trying to determine
which connection method was used.)
FWIW, I tested this the other day for someone, with 300
characters in a cell. And it worked fine in Word 2002. I note,
however, that the Excel file was NOT created in an earlier
version of Excel...
And does the same happen when you open this kind of mail
merge document in Word 2002?
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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benefit of others who may be interested.  Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP