I have written a automated mailmerge letter and would like
to delete a line after a mail merge item (autmoatically).
I am producing a number of mail merge documents and
therefore cannot do the gap myself.

Is there a way to make sections or even whole pages of a
Word Document to appear or disappear based on criteria of
a field from a Mail Merge?
And if so, will Word automaticly move the paragraphs or

I open WordXP an JUST look at a file. I do not make any
changes to the file. But when I close the file I am asked
Do I want to save changes? Also If I create a new document
the font size is set for 125% not 100%.Why is this? Thanks

Does anyone know why suddenly the length of merge fields
in Word 2000 and Word XP have become truncated? For
example a merge field that was prevoiusly
cd_listingsvendor_solicitor_address1

I have a client who has an Access database with 190
fields per record, the first 15 fields are patient
personal info and the remaing 175 are psychiatric testing
variables.  He prepares a 29 page report from this.

We are having such difficulty utilizing mail merge with our Access database (address) files in order to run our regular real estate postcard  mailings. It is  grueling, sometimes it works & sometimes it  doesn't. It puts our computers in a coma!! Is it the Word program?? Where ...

I've been reading and reading about how to format data with switches and I can't seem to make it happen.  Does anybody have any good ideas about how to make my currency fields in Excel show up as Dollars in my merged letter?  this is driving me crazy.....my word 98 just does it!  ...

For years I used address data in a Word table to create
mailing labels with Windows95 and Windows98.  It was easy
and worked beautifully.  Now, since upgrading to Windows
XP, I find this no longer works.  Instead I'm directed to

Ih have a strange problem.
In a .dat file I have several strange characters (like ö, à etc) When
I am using mail merge these strange characters are not merged ok. Is
see other strange characters (japanese characters as well!!) I think

When I merge from a query, a memo field prints the text
OK for 3 lines then a series of question marks is
inserted. Can't solve this at all. Any help will be
appreciated.

(I'm using Word 2000.)
I've seen a number of posts here regarding problems people are having
with getting data from an Access database into a Word document using
MERGEFIELD and switches. For example, using { MERGEFIELD TEL \# "(###)

I am trying to insert a database into a document using
{DATABASE} and I am getting an error that the document was
unable to open the data source.  The name and location of
the data source changes depending on the situation, so I

Hi - I just discovered that under Insert, Field there is a
macrobutton option.  When I tried to use it (I wanted to
be able to d-click the button to have my document's fields
recalculate) it didn't work.  Looked at Help, I seem to be

I have created a template used for writing letters to our employees.
One thing, however, bothers me. I would like the first half of the letter to
be write protected so the user cannot change the settings of the mailmerge
fields

I am trying to find a formula to format into my Word
document, a phone number that is on an Access database
into something more than just numbers...example: (###)###-
####.  Can you help me?