I'm having a problem with existing documents that have
been working up until now, with the date coming thru as
american date format, the format that has been coming
thru before is d mm yyy, I have added in the switches

Im working with Word 2000 (9.0.3821 SR-1).
I've created a mail merge document and inserted the fields
in their appropriate places. My problem is I want to
validate these fields on the actual merging from the one

We discovered when attempting to do a mail merge using
Contacts, that when you click on Choose Contacts Folder,
there is no consistency in what it pulls up. A secretary
may have proxy to 2 or 3 attorneys' contacts folders,

I have been trying to fix a computer that has a mail merge error.  When
running the mail merge, I need to create a database.  When trying to do
this, I get an error: "This operation cannot be completed because of dialog
or database engine failures."  I uninstalled the Office XP and ...

I M using 3 x 8 sticker sheet to print addresses using
mail merge mailing label utility but not gettig proper
result after doing all page formatting
practices ,,,,,,,,, any one can help me?

I can't seem to get the mail merge to evaluate negative
numbers in the data source.  I have an IF statement to
evaluate a field for a positive number (IF fieldname >
0 "print this" "print that").  The IF statement can't seem

I am attempting to mail merge an address from my Outlook
contacts list to a letter in Word. When I get to the step
of selecting a recipient, I get the following
error: "Unable to obtain list of tables from the data

I am merging an Excel database into a MS word document.
The Excel database consists of Name/Street No/ Street name/City
in the case where the street number is  a number like 1243 or 345 or 567899,
all is ok

Word 97
I have various fields in the document, and want update at
print turned on (for page numbers etc.) but not for the
fillin and ref fields. Otherwise when I print, the popup

When I mail merge letters (Word 2003) from an Excel 2003
database the numbers in the Excel document (e.g. 25,2)
will be merged in the Word mail merge letter with up to
20 decimals (e.g. 25,235560000000002223) I've tried to

We are all using Word 2000 - One is using Windows XP and
the rest are using Window 2000 Professional. I am trying
to set up a mail merge document that is used by four
different people.  When each person does their merge they

I'm wondering if there is any way to create a macro or a
quick key (ie CTRL W) so that I can select text and
insert a field code for index entries.
The specific field codes I would like to be able to

When I start to create my label and I pick the one I want.  I choose new document.  The outline of the labels do not appear.  I cannot see where to begin or end.

I cannot believe that one cannot insert a space between
Title, First_name and Last_name without cancelling the
dialog box.
Please can someone advise?

This has always worked in previous versions of Word where
data comes in without field names (it's downloaded and
then converted to an Excel file). We have separate header
document which is attached to a main document. However,