You need to sort the data source on the last name field.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
> My mail merge is for form letters, but i have several clients so there are
> several records in teh merge. how do i organize this so that it will appear
> alphabetical bythe clients last name in the merge?
>
> thanks
> russ