I have a mail merge document where I want certain letters with a fiel
associated with it to print to a tray 1 and the other letters to wit
another merge field to print to tray 2.  How do I set my condition u
to do this when all the letters are in one document when it merges?

When opening a merged document with macros enabled, I do
not get the merged data. I must first select merge to a
new document before data is merged.
However, for other users machine when they open the merged

I have a form document in Word that I am tyrying to merge with an Access database.  In Access, I have a state field with a ">" in the format properties box so that all the two-letter abbreviations are capitalized.  When I merge the two together, the states come out lowercase ...

I have a template with a table set up with two columns and multiple rows,
and a merge field in each resulting cell.
This all works OK when the merge field content is fairly short, (e.g.: "this
is short") but not so good when fields get longer, (e.g.: "This is a lengthy

When I do a mail merge in an Access table using DATABASE
field, everything works fine.  But when I try to merge to
a link table in Oracle I got the following error:
"Word was unable to open the data source"

I have a over 400 mailmerge document in Word 2003. My
access program automates a mail merge process and prints
the documents. Everything works fine if the datasource
for the Word documents do not change. But, if it changes,

Sorry if I'm posting to the wrong newsgroup: I really don't know where to
post this question !
We need to be able to generate a word document, from a template, and fill in
some "blanks" using data coming from an oracle database. We need the

I am running word 2003 under windows XP and am very interested in
using the fax merge option. I have run multiple merges to print in the
past with no problem however when I go into merge to select document
type I only have options for Letters,Email,envelopes, labels and

Is it possible for me to create a new field (other than the
ones provided) and insert is in word document?
For eg. I want to replace the REF field by say, MYREF and
allow it to import all text(as before) + all custom tags

I have a Word document that is linked to my Access
database through mailmerge. A separate letter is generated
for each person based on a query in Access as the source.
I would like to save a "static" copy of each letter as

I am using MS Word 2002 to generate emails using a contact folder in Outlook
2003. Everything works fine up untill the last step when it generates the
actual email and appears to send it. However, it doesn't as the message
never gets to Outlook 2003. No messages are produced to ...

I'm getting a leading blank before the name in my mail merge
output and it's not clear to me where it's coming from. The name
is being pulled in as part of the AddressBlock field.
I'm running Office 2003 if that matters. The blank is not

I have done mail merges with labels, envelopes, letters.  I understand some
of the concepts, but I am now stuck.
I have survey form results which have been converted into an xls file.  The
demographic data is limited to <10 chars each field, but the comments field

We have 3 computers at work on which we use Word 2000 Mailmerge to create mailing labels. The data source is a text file held on the respective computers local drive. When I select the data source in the mailmerge helper on two of the computers I am able to select the text file ...

Any takers?
I have been trying to figure out why I can't show the
results of certain field codes in Word 2002.  When I go
to Tools|Options|View|Field Codes and check the box to