If you have tried all the connection methods (and in this case, I do not
think changing them will help anyway) then I know of no way to improve
performance in Word 2002. I would definitely want to test my merge on Word
2003 before committing to an upgrade though.
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Peter Jamieson - Word MVP
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/
> is there any way to fix the merging issue associated with
> word xp when you have more than 250 fields without
> upgrading to word 2003 right away. word 2003 is supposed
> to allow for faster sorting through records and a more
> rapid merge to print function