Please read the online help in Word. It clearly shows you
how to do a mailmerge as I can't believe it's taken you 4
days to do such a simple task!!!

Hi Drgnlilli,

There is a mail merge tutorial on mvps.org/word that might
help you. When you ask questions here you MUST remember to
tell us which version of Word you have, since the mail merge
interface did change in Word 2002.

Since you have a new computer, I'm guessing you're probably
in this new interface. Tools/Mailings/Mail merge and choose
the Mail Merge Wizard. This will display a pane at the right
of your screen that comprises 6 steps. Read ALL the
information in each step, as you go, and you should get a bit
further.

To answer your specific question: you can use your OUTLOOK
address book, if you wish. Or, if the addresses are already
stored in a database or Excel, chances are you can use that -
just tell us what you have. If they aren't typed in anywhere,
yet, then there's an option in the mail merge wizard that
lets you create a new "address list". This will be an Access
database (but you don't have to know that).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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