See the article "Creating a Mail Merge Data Source" at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateADataSource.htm
and "How to create a Mail Merge" at:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>I am trying to mail merge but every time I go to get data and identify
>where
> the file name, I get a message saying 'Word could not parse your query
> options into a valid SQL string'. This is driving me loopy please can you
> help?