I hope you can help me please. I would like to take a standard letter in
Word, which has textfields for name, address, etc. but instead of doing a
standard mail merge where contact details are taken from a database or
spreadsheet, I would like to be able to manually enter name, ...

When i click the drop down Tools tab in Word, i have
nearly 30 Mail Merge lines.  They seem to be gradually
increasing as a few months ago there were around 10.  I do
not know why they are multiplying as i do not even use

Need to remote control Word 2003 from VB6 app. I use the following steps
Public appWord As Word.Applicatio
Public appWordDoc As Word.Documen
 Set appWord = New Word.Applicatio

I am merging data from Excel into Word.  The numerical data in Excel is formatted to 2 decimals but when I merge them into word, they change into 14 decimal places.  For example  687.76 turns into 687.7599999999999999
The data in Excel is not a calculation field and is formatted ...

I have no problem with mail merges when in my office - on
the network - but off-site, Windows locks up every time I
try to create a mail merge with an Excel file as the data
source. It gets as far as opening Excel, but only to a

I have the data source in MS Excel.  One of the columns
has been formatted with percent. I merge the Excel data
in Word, the percent formatting is lost.  How do I retain
the formatting in Word from Excel?  My Excel data has 30

I need to figure out how do fix the length of a text mergefield so things align correctly on my labels. The results of the field in question are text of varying number of characters. As the result length varies, the label arrangement moves around. I have the mergefield whose ...

I'm in the midst of losing my mail merge virginity, and it
isn't pretty.
I'm trying to accomplish two things. Mail merging name,
address and salutation into a text document, that in turn

Hi , I'm just starting to work with mass email and mail merge.  I created the email in Word and the names and email addresses are in Excel.  I imported the names just fine but the Greeting says Dear Ms. Jane Doe but I would rather it say Dear Ms. Doe.  The Excel file has the ...

I'm using the Label wizard to print a single label.  
Regardless of what I specify as the row/column for the
label to be printed, it always prints in the top left
corner (row 1, col 1).

After entering some times in an Excel spreadsheet,
formatting the "TIME" column under the category of Time
and the "1:30 PM" Type and merging into a Word document,
the time shows as 1:30:00 PM.

How do I apply background shading to a single mergefield when creating labels? I have only been able to get it applied to the whole table or the individual cell so far. I cannot find a field code for shading.

I am having a problem when doing a mail merge.  I have a
computer that has Windows 2000 Professional and Word 2000
and at one time it had a UPS program on it.  While doing
a mail merge I do Get Data - Open Data Source - choose

I have an Access database that is used as a front end for
SQL Server.
Users enter data via Access and use the reporting engine
in Access to develop and print reports.

I need to write vb program that opens word doc/dot and does mail merge of
selected records in recordset. Please let me know any place to look for
hints.
Thank you in advance.