I am running Word and Excel 2002 on a Windows XP machine.
I'm using a table in Excel for a mail merge into Word. I
open Excel then Word. (If I open Word first it says the
excel file is locked for editing.) Word updates the

I have a someone in our HR department trying to use the
maile merge option.  They are pulling in this information
from an excel file into a Word template. This has worked
in an earlier version(97) and now using Office 2002. The

I am running Word and Excel 2002 on a Windows XP machine.
There is a cell in excel I formatted to make it
fractional instead of a decimal. When I mail merge it
into word it converts it back into a decimal. Thank you.

Does word have the if function like Excel?
Thanks.
jbc

These may be newbie questions, but here goes:
1) Is there a way to view the locations of cells in a
table?  For example, if you have a certain sized table and
you need formulas to calculate values from certain cells,

Is there a comprehensive list of Fields and switches I
can use in mailmerge?
Is there a breakdown of usable fields by compatible
version? I have client workstations with 97 to 2002 that

How do you email a Word mailmerge document without having
to answer "yes" to every single email because of the
security patch.  Using the "time limit" parameter does not
seem to illiminate the need to respond to every single

How do I email a Word2000 document without the recipient being able to view
all my documents merely by clicking on File/Open?  I only  need them to see
the one document I created.  Please help if you can.  Thanks.
bb

How can I get my phone numbers to merge into my document
with parenthesis and dashes. [For example(###)###-####]It
shows all the correct numbers but it doesn't show the
()'s and the -'s. Please help...

I am using Office XP professional and trying to create
labels using Word and Excel.  I can merge the info from
Excel in to Word but when I try to view my label I only
get one page of data.  But if I use the find function they

When I do a mail merge and there is no info for the field is there a way to print that there is "no info" in that field.  Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Paul

Sorry if this message is in the wrong forum.  I would like to create a check
box form field that actually uses a check box rather than an X.  Is there an
easy way to do this?
TIA,

I have a number of mail merges set up, using Excel as the data source. the merges work just fine in Word & Excel ver 97/2002
When I moved my files into 2003, I'm continually receive the following message when I open the merge document.
"Opening this document will run the following ...

I am also struggling with this issue.  There MUST be a
way!  I need this so that the partners can select which
addresses need to be emailed instead of snail-mailed.
Can anyone help with this??  Thanks!

Is there a way to create multiple labels using a variable
in the source file to indicate the number "merges"
needed?
I need to merge multiple mailing labels based on an excel