We do A LOT of merges here, and this problem comes up
when my excel file (we save as a .csv) has many blank
cells--this occurs when we have little information on our
constituents--the cells are supposed to be blank.  When I
perform the merge (using Office 2003) in the word doc it
pops up "too few data" for every record that has blanks.  
I just want the darn thing to skip that line like it is
supposed to.  Instead it refuses to print that particular
record.  I searched microsoft online and found 1 article
from Office 2000, that makes no sense.  Oh, and if I go
back to my source file and "find and replace" all the
blanks with a . or something, then the merge works fine,
but takes 10 years to print because it has to "think"
about the 10,000+ .'s it has to print.  Please help!!!

Oh, and in case you are wondering, if I save my excel
file as a .xls I lose special formatting (like shortened
dates) in my merge doc.  Either way I am in trouble.