Win2K Pro SP2   Office 2000 9.0.3.8.2.1 SR-1
I have just spent two days trying to do someting that I think is supposed to
be *really* simple. I've used Word's flat database procedures for a number
of years, but not exactly the below scenario.

I use the same data document (Mailing List) (below) to create labels and
there is no problem there with doing the merge with the label main document.
I don't use any scripting or outside db - just simple flat table db.

Say that in my Word Table  data document I have forty companies with these
headers across the header row:
Title    Company    Address   City   State   Zip+4

I want to send a main document (letter) to only ten of these companies with
these inserted merge fields for the inside address:
?Company?
?Address1?
?City?  ?State?  ?PostalCode?

I have tried all the known (to me) possible variations of declaring only ten
records using the ?Company? field. I either get only the first record, or I
get this message:

! Word could not merge the main document with the data source because the
data records were empty or no data records matched your query options. (In
the main Mail Merge Helper, the main document and the data document have the
correct names automatically).

I started over again this morning and started from scratch (in this order)
(set up the main document, selected a data source, and inserted merge fields
in the main document. Click Mail Merge on the Tools menu. Under Merge the
data with the document, click Query Options, and then click the Filter
Records tab. In the Field box, click a data field, and then click a
comparison phrase in the Comparison box. In the Compare to box, type the
text or number you want to compare with the contents of the data field.

On the Filter Records tab, I clicked Company, [is equal to] Casler
Construction Co.
(1) What do I do with that one? and (2) How can I choose the other nine
companies?