I am on the limit of wanting to give some useably designer
in MS a real up-front close encounter with usability
feedback. What I am trying to do is...

Merge a small (20 record?) Excel spreadsheet set-up as a
merge source document with an MS Word document. I'm using
Win2K and Word/Excel 2000. I've done this more times than
I care to remember, but tonight...

No matter what format the source document I try, be it in
Excel .xls, tab or comma delimited .txt, Word table .doc
format or anything else I can try, as soon as I try and
define my source document to a Word merge document I am
told; "The merged document contains unmarked changes. Do
you want to merge up to the first unmarked change?" This
is clever especially when we're talking about a simply
comma or tab delimited file!

Excuse me, but quite what the ... is this meant to mean? I
have a simple file. The number of cells/tabs/commas
(select as appropriate to the numerous file formats I've
tried) are correct, i.e. each row has the correct number
of columns, but still word will not have it. It would be
easier, quicker and better for my blood pressure to simply
type the merge long-hand.

Quite what is going on? What is it about tonight that
means Word has decided not to play? Things used to be so
easy in the bad old days when you typed up your merge
document long-hand inserting the fields manually. Now it
all has to be 'easy', and with that so much doesn't seem
to work as it should :-(

Anyone any ideas?

.../Iain