Problem with Mail Merge and creting lables

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- 24 Mar 2004 01:03 GMT

I have created a .txt file from another program. I can
open that file with Word; however, when I use mail merge
and click to open that file, the message says it can't
open. No other explanation. The first record in that file
is the names of the fields within the record, then the
records I'm trying to use to create the lables.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 24 Mar 2004 01:24 GMT

Open the text file in Word, and select all of the text and then from the
Tables menu, select Convert Text to Table. Then save the document as a Word
document and use that as the datasource.

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>I have created a .txt file from another program. I can
> open that file with Word; however, when I use mail merge
> and click to open that file, the message says it can't
> open. No other explanation. The first record in that file
> is the names of the fields within the record, then the
> records I'm trying to use to create the lables.

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