We recently just upgraded all of our computers in our office from Windows 98 to Windows XP.  Prior to upgrading, I created a mail merge document.  The data source was Excel and then merged into Word.  
When creating the document in excel, I entered the numbers simply as "5300101" ...

I am sure I am missing something here.
I am doing address labels in Word 2000.
When I close the Mail Merge Helper it creates the template showing the field
names and positions for the whole page. If I want to edit the layout it

I have a template that I use to merge notice letters to clients.  I want to take the {today's date} field and calculate 14 days in advance from then
So the letter will read:  "Please contact us no later than [{today's date} + 14].  Is there any way to do that in MS Word?
Thank you

When I finalize my mail merge, I receive a message that says there are
locked fields in the merge than cannot be updated.  How do I find which
fields/ words are locked and unlock them all?  I created the merge from a
basic letter and I am unaware of any locked fields.

I am attempting a mail merge to customers seeking feedback
on the number of potential referrals we've made to them.  
The format of the data is similar to the following:
Company 1    Peter    Plumber    14/5/03

I would greatly appreciate someone's help out there if they can...I'm in
Word 2000 and have merged Access data into a directory.  The only problem is
when I complete the merge to a new document, the headings appear for each
record, I only want the headings to appear at the top of ...

I was trying to type a bunch of letters with numbers from
an Excel spreadsheet.  Even though on the Excel screen it
showed 2 decimal points (e.g. 11.22), but when I mail
merged to a Word document, it showed 11.220000000001.  I

Does anyone have or know where I can get the Word 2002
Post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package: July 18, 2003

After creating a letter with the mail merge, how can I
merge them into a document?

I am currently working on an enterprise development
project that requires standard letters to be automatically
by the system.  MS Word mail merge (running on the client
PCs) has been identified as one possibility.  However, the

I just upgraded to Office 2003 Professional and I can't
create a mail merge document using a query with
parameters.  When I go to the "Select Data Source" part
of the mail merge helper the queries with parameters

When creating a form letter from a data source with
multiple fields that are not the same length, is there a
way to tell Word to create multiple "letters" on one page
if the data record is short and then create an entire page

I am new at using field codes. I am creating a template that others will use. It has FILLIN boxes that will pop up and ask questions, they will fill in their amounts, then I need a Field equation that will add up the two fillin boxes?  Example: How many dogs?  10, How many cats?  ...

Have looked through (and tried the suggestions) from the
previous postings on this subject, but still not working!!
Merging data from Excel to Word (2003), and 60 pence is
shown as 0.6 - which I'd like formatted to £0.60.  Have

I am trying to do a mail merge letter with first name,
middle name and last name on a document.  When there is
no middle name or initial, a space is left in the name.  
Does anyone know how to get rid of the extra space