Hey guys-
New to this forum, seems like a TON of great info here. I'm gonna post this
to a couple different groups, so I apologize in advance. I just don't know
the proper place for it...

I am trying to create a field so that when I type text in
that field, it is also display elsewhere in the document.  
For example, how can I type the date of the document once
and have it displayed in the footer of succeeding pages?  

I am merging lots of addresses that have different
information and varying lengths of address.  
When I merge to a letter etc, I am getting blank lines.  
ie some of the people have a title some don't so that the

I have a mail-merge document setup which links to an Excel file. I have it
working fine for the most part, except for this: I need it to break-up the
data in zip codes, where the zip codes change. It already sorts by zips, but
it also needs to separate them, like so:

I apologize, I posted this to the newsgroup earlier, I just can't get an
understanding of how to do this no matter how hard I try.
I data have from an Excel file with ZIP codes. When it merges to a Word
document, I want it to do like this:

I have a set of macros designed in Word 2000 to do automated Mail
Merges from a SQL server database via ODBC. They work very well at the
moment. These now need to be ported to Word 2003, however, I cannot
seem to get the OpenDataSource command to connect to a datasource in

I am using Office 2003 on XP Pro.
I want to run a mail merge using an existing document. When I get to Step 3
of 6 and click the match fields button, I see them all matched up with a
great number of fields to choose from in the pull down lists.

Can you help with printing labels?  How do you print one half of a sheet of
labels then next week you need to finish printing the last half how do you
tell WORD where to start printing, or should you turn the sheet of labels
over upside down and run them through the printer?

Is there a way to change the layout of my label once I've
already viewed the labels?
Thanks

Once I have the merge fields selected in a label, how can
I add or delete a merge field without having to do it on
every label?
Thanks-

Is there any way to do an e-mail merge with an attachment.  I set up the mail merge in Outlook using Word as my e-mail editor and include the attachment - but then when I hit send it just seems to send the text of the message.  What am I doing wrong here?

Someone named Joe asked this question a few weeks ago and
I am having the same problem.  
Greg had responded with solution.
Thanks

I have a user who has 300 addresses all typed up neatly
in a Word XP document.  HOWEVER, now she needs to merge
them into labels and I can't figure out a simple way to
do this.  I have copied all the addresses, and pasted

I'm merging some dollar amounts from Excel into Word.   However, once it is merged, the "$" symbol and commas go away.   How do I retain this format?  I'm trying to avoid having to manually type in dollar signs and commas.

Anyone know how to capture the names of the merge fields in the MAIN document for a merge
The MailMergeFieldNames is only available from a DataSource; however I need to verify that all the MailMerge fields in the destination are valid based on certain criteria
Any assistance would ...