I am trying to merge contact info to a form and it randomly skips records, no reason. It appears to skip every other record but sometimes it's 3-4 records before it skips again. It occurs when I either merge directly to printer or to document.

I'm getting the following error message:
"Word could not merge the main document with the data
source because the data records were empty or no data
records matched your query options."

how do we create or use a header file in the mail merge
process?
By default MS-Word uses the first record in the data file
as the header record how do we prevent this and have word

Every time I open the WordPerfect file of mailing labels I
typed for Christmas, Word sees it as a list
with "continous breaks" between the addresses. How do I
get back the label formatting?

I am trying to merge data into a table with 2 cells and then move to the next record.
In the first cell I have name-address-city state       in the second cell I have personalize information
They are 4 up on a sheet. So I have a table with 4 Rows 2 columns for each record. After it ...

All the help info tells me to select "Mail Merge" from
the Tools menu, but I do not have it on my tools menu,
nor can I access the functions from the tool bar when I
do get them to show.  Do I have to save the main document

I'm using vb.net to merge data to a Word 2000 document.
The document is set up as a letter and I've inserted
bookmarks to merge the data. How do I have multiple
bookmarks to merge the same data. ie I have bookmarks for

Since upgrading to Office 2003, many of my users have had
problems with the mail merge.  I have an Access database
with workgroup security that I need to merge into Word
documents.  Prior to the upgrade (Office XP), users

My error message is:
"Word could not merge the main document with the data
source because the data records were empty or no data
records matched your query options."

When creating labels in Word 2002, Word will only create
the first page of labels.  I have tried importing data
from an Access query, from Excel and as a Word Mail Merge
and no matter what only one page of labels is created.  It

I have my 'heading 1' in a table and that is what i want
to appear in the table of contents, but so far it is not
recognized. Is it because its in a table?
Thanks

i have just copied a macro to update the fields in my
document automatically - it works wonderfully. EXCEPT the
file and pathname field does not update. Why is this
field not included in the update? all fields in the doc

I am making a template using text form fields, drop down
list fields, check boxes, fill-in fields, and autotextlist
fields.  I lock the form and all the fields are available
to fill in, etc. EXCEPT the autotextlist field.  I can

I've an existing Word table, containing 5 columns. The first two column
headers are "Last" and "First", for names.
I'm trying to use these first two columns as a data source for a
certificate, created as the Main Document, but I cannot get the certificate

I created an ODC for a mail merge that works fine in
2000,XP, and 2003. However, if that data changes (though
a seperate application), If you are running Word 2000 or
XP, when you re-open the word document, the data is not