How is an ODC file made?  What are the steps and from what
program is it made?

I finally successfully set up a mail merge file in word from excell but am experiencing a problem printing.  Each envelope prints with a solid line at the bottom which also appears in the print preview.  How do I remove this?

I have addresses in Excel and the Postal Code field/column was formatted using the "special, zip+4" option.   In the Excel file, all the 5 digit zips have four (4) zeros in front and they merge into Word as 5 digits.   The nine digit zips appear fine in Excel, but when they are ...

I'm using word97 for mail merge and my data source is in excel 97
format.
I have a problem when i try to merge data source with many records.
what happen then was that i used the mail merge query function to

I download a large Christmas card list from my contact manager software.  Sometimes the address is under either home or business set of fields (e.g., HomeStreet vs. BusinessStreet and HomeCity vs. BusinessCity, etc.).  Being lazy, I don't want to take the time to manually modify ...

Is it just me or... when I mail merge to an access query
with  a criteria containing Like and a "*" [eg
Like "member*"], no records are returned.
In ccess the query returns data, but in word 2002, no

I am using WD2002,Microsoft Outlook 2002 with winXP Pro as
my Os.
When replying to mail recieved in outlook , Word opens up
as email editor.The default font is set to Times New

I have a user with a laptop running Office XP on Windows
XP who experiences Word crashing whenever he enters
AutoText into a form field. The form field is in a Word
document that is protected.

I am doing a catalog mail merge and including images.  When I merge to a new document it does not keep the cell sizes in the table as it was in the merge document.  I have looked to see if there is any extra data causing the size increase but there doesn't appear to be any.
Any ...

When merging a large database from outlook to create
mailing labels word stops responding. I end up closing
word through task manager and when I do I get a
message "merge failed".

I'm currently working on a mass mailing invoice for my company. My
company represents several different charitable organizations so we're
trying to design invoices that will be able to change the letters and
logos depending on the organization the invoice is for. We've gotten

using ME and office 2000, i have created a form letter and
merged an excel worksheet filled with addresses and all
appears to work fine on my screen.  then when printing, if
i select print all, only about 10 to 12 of the 60 pages

When I click the mail merge helper the pop up box is
displayed behind my main document window.
I am using office 2000 with windows XP Home Edition
Are ther any fixes for this.

MS Access 2000/MS Word 2000.
I need to create a Word mail merge -- the Word file is a sinlge document
but in the word file, I need to retrieve data from multiple data sources.
For example, on the top half of the word file, I need to retreieve data

I'm using Word 2002 with Windows XP.  I've inserted an  <<AddressBlock>>
in a letter Template linked to the Contacts list of Outlook.  The name
and address import just fine, but the name suffix does not get pasted
in.  I've chosen the name format properly - John Q. Smith Jr. and