I created a template that includes 3 fill in fields for
the user to complete. They do not come up the way I
inserted them. Is there a way I can specify the order the
fields should appear.

I have a main document containing Text Form Fields for the
users to fill in. After the merge the  text form fields
have disappeared. Is there a way to retain those after a
merge?  

All of a sudden my mail merge command has disappeared from the Tool Bar.  Help!

Help!
I used the Mail Merge Feature almost every day since we
do lots of mailings at work. It worked slick as a whistle
for about 2 years. But now my Mail Merge Command in Tools

i can only use the costumized merged buttons in docs i
created 3 months ago but not in recent ones.
I have successfully followed the steps given in 'mail
merge lables with word xp' from www.gmayor.com and added

I need a date field that inserts today's date when a new
document is created, but then does not update when the
user reopens the document later.

I am working with word 2000 using c# in which i am using
Word's exposed funtions.
Now from my c# code, how can I access all custom
properties and update them.

We have some Word report templates with a user form as you
open them which asks certain information such as
Inspector, item, date etc.  The information is then put in
certain places on the report.  The date and item number

We are using Word 97, with windows 98. We are trying to
print on 5 x 7 cards and  6 x 9 envelopes with mail merge.
The layouts look fine in print preview and all the
settings are fine, yet both the envelopes and cards print

I had merge to email working in Word 2000 by adding
MAPIX=1 to WIN.INI. When I just upgraded to Office 2003,
the email and fax merge are no longer available. MAPIX=1
is still there, but I can't do an email merge. Any hints?

Can I get word to use a specific workgroup information
file to open an access database? It keeps saying it can't
find the file but never asks me for it.

I use the following logic in the footnote section of my
mail merge document and it works fine in WORD 97.  However
when I run it in WORD 2002, the page number was wrong for
all the pages in the document.  The page number was set to

I have a custom property name "test" whose value
is "great" in one of my word document which is in word
2000.
I am opening the word document thru a c# application and

I am trying to contact property owners, some who live in
state, some in other states, with a merge letter.  I set
up a database file in Access 2002 using (in addition to
other fields) two fields for the separate addresses.  

I have data on an Access database. One of the fields is a
date and is entered on the database in dd/mm/yyyy format.
When merged into a Word document it is re-formatted into
mm/dd/yyyy format (i.e. from International to US format).