From the View menu, select Toolbars and turn on the Mail merge toolbar. You
can do all you want from there.
Alternatively, look at the Mail merge in Word 2002 section of fellow MVP
Cindy Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm
She has some information there on getting back older interfaces.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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> I have been using Word for a long time and the mail merge feature in XP
> is horrible compared to earlier versions. Does anybody know of a fix
> or how to activate the 2K version? :confused:
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You'll find all you need to know at
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

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