If you don't get a response within 2 hours you get a complete refund of your
money!!! ;)

ok, point made, everyone here is a volunteer; if they don't know, or can't
get to you right away, have a look at their signature lines.  They usually
have a wealth of FAQs and other such links that you can follow to find
short, easily understood articles, on how to do numerous things with Word.
Maybe you'll turn up what you need while you wait.

Also, go to some e-book retailer and see what's available for Word; I like
e-books because they can be much easier to search than paper books, but if
you don't, then trot down to your local super book store to see if they have
anything.

I think you'll need one huge Word reference book, and a separate huge
reference book on writing vba Word macros, if you're going to be working
much with Word.

For the latter, I like:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/writewordmacro/

Although for the former I haven't found just what I want yet.

hth,

Chip

the suggestions that were given for phone number formats, and I don't know
if the answers had misplaced quotation marks, but when I type {mergfield
phone\#,'(###) ###-####'} I do NOT get the phone number in the correct
format. I get (###) ###-####. Exactly that. Those aren't numbers!!!! How do
I get Word to insert the para's and dashes?? This is a mail merge from Excel
to Word...

Heather,

Posting yet another thread doesn't make help come any sooner, for you or
anyone else. Everyone here is a volunteer. This is the end of a major 3-day
weekend in the USA. Graham Mayor's site has excellent references on
formatting fields and is up 24-7.

the suggestions that were given for phone number formats, and I don't know
if the answers had misplaced quotation marks, but when I type {mergfield
phone\#,'(###) ###-####'} I do NOT get the phone number in the correct
format. I get (###) ###-####. Exactly that. Those aren't numbers!!!! How do
I get Word to insert the para's and dashes?? This is a mail merge from Excel
to Word...

number in the > correct format. I get (###) ###-####. Exactly that.

Apart from everything everyone else has said..

a. Just in case, you need "mergefield". not "mergfield"
b. ideally, where you have single quotes ', you should have straight double
quoted "

i.e. you shoud at least be using

{ MERGEFIELD phone \# "(###) ### ####" }

where the {} are inserted using ctrl-F9. The spacing may not be significant
in your copy of Word, but it's what I'd use.

the suggestions that were given for phone number formats, and I don't know
if the answers had misplaced quotation marks, but when I type {mergfield
phone\#,'(###) ###-####'} I do NOT get the phone number in the correct
format. I get (###) ###-####. Exactly that. Those aren't numbers!!!! How do
I get Word to insert the para's and dashes?? This is a mail merge from Excel
to Word...