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.

I have next year have some probleme with word XP on mailmerge with more than
255 field , word XP crashes and is very slow.
(I have referenced this bug to Microsoft)
i haven't problem with word 2000 and 97.

I created a VB front end for mail merges.  The mail merge issue I a
having problems with is that I have two combo boxes, one pulls th
month (long format, i.e January) from the database and the Year i
4-digit format.  

Hi, I'm trying to do a mail merge.  The document is in
Word and I'm using Microsoft Outlook.  When I try to send
the email, I get the following error message "Word could
not send mail/MAPI failed: option not supposed"  Does

I have mail merges setup that have been running fine in
Office XP (win 98 & win xp) that when opened in Office
2003 have lost all the data links. When I open the same
file back on an Office XP Machine it is okay. Is there an

Our office has about 50 form letters that merge data from
an Oracle db to Word using bookmarks.  We also seem to
have a lot of text in the bookmarks that have either
quotes or apostrophes, which always come out as straight

I'm trying to set up a mail merge with a single column of labels per
page.  Oddly enough, this works just great if I step through Word
2000's mail merge wizard by hand.  When I try to create a macro of
those steps, however, I get two columns per page.  Our printer

I am using word 2000 on a P-3 800 with 256 megs of RAM and
WIN 2k sp4.   I do mail merges a lot and my problem is i
merge 1000 records at a time and around 500 it slows to a
crawl.  it takes 2-3 seconds to merge one record.  the

I have next year have some probleme with word XP on mailmerge with more than
255 field , word XP crashes and is very slow.
(I have referenced this bug to Microsoft)
i haven't problem with word 2000 and 97.

Working in Word 2003.  Created a form, locked it down so
no one can make changes, but it doesn't allow the document
to accept merge fields into the field areas.  Anyone else
have this problem or know a way around it?

I just did a mail merge to email for 300 recipients.  How
do I set the message options to reflect "Importance" &
set "Do not deliver before"?
BTW-Without going into each produced email.

Does any one have any Idea on how to programmatically
check for the Message "Zipcode not Valid!" ?
and stop it from printing any bar code ?
I am merging in information using a Book mark.

I have a preprinted form that I am wanting to merge
employee information into.  Is there a way that I can
print only the merged information without printing the
full document?  (E.g. Sue Smith; rather than First Name:

Greetings Group,
I frequently create a mail out in which large blocks of text are
created within WORD 97's "IF...THEN...ELSE" fields.
Is there anyway to get the spell checker to scan the contents of these

I am trying to create a form with "clickable" boxes.  I
have tried using the control toolbox and it will populate,
however when you close the document and open it again the
check box will not work.  I am open to using anything that