I've been tweaking the code below to mail merge from Access 2000 to a
Word doc.
Two issues have come up.
1. The Code does not allow null values in any of the fields. Could

A user inserts a date field and it is updating each time
the document is opened.  The field is not set to "update
automatically"  How can I turn this into text so it will
not update automatically?

I'm back with another macro mail merge challenge. I use Microsoft Word
97 on a Windows/NT machine. I need to perform a Catalogue mail merge
using an Excel spread sheet as the data. The resulting Word merge
document needs to yield a Geographical listing containing a group of

I am trying to print a set of labels.
My problem is that when I insert the correct fields, some seem to be
underlined with a faint dotted line.  This obviously signifies something but
I am dammed if I can figure out what it is.

Hi, I am using Word 2002 at work and trying to use nested
field codes in a merge document, specifically the 'If'
field code and the 'Includepicture' field code.  within
each of these I am trying to insert the 'mergefield' field

When I merge an Excel database into a Word document for labels, my zip code field is 5 digits followed by a decimal point and a zero.  I have the field formatted to text.  What am I doing wrong?

Hello,  When doing a mailmerge in Word 2000 there is an
option to send the document as an attachment and that is
not what I want to do.  I would like to do a mailmerge to
email and send an attachment with that email.  If I try to

I have a problem when doing a mail merge in Word 2003
from Outlook 2003 contacts.
During Step 3 of 6 in word2003 I have to choose the data
source etc...

I have a little problem.  
Situation : We have a database in Unix (Informix) where our data is
stored. Now we want to merge the data from that database to a Word
document.  Everything works fine except for the following.  One

I am performing a mail merge in MSWord XP and want the data to be
sorted down the columns, not across the rows.
1 6  11
2 7  12

Our organization has recently discovered that it is possible to directly connect to the Oracle database from Microsoft Word (Word 2000 in our case) using the MS Query and ODBC drivers. This feature should allow our users to independantly obtain data from our Oracle database and ...

If you have permissions to access another users Contacts
folder is there a way that you can use this as a data
source to create a mail merge? It only appears to bring
up the option for your own folder?

I am having a problem with mailmerging in Word 6.0a. I hope this is the
right place to ask?
I have included the filename field in my mailmerge master document. The idea
is that this will get carried over to the new merged document, and print the

I've alreadsy posted this to the Access group, but am now
wondering if it is a Word XP problem.
the long explanation is below, but to summarise:
An existing 97 Access database has been upgraded to XP.  

i did a excel to word milmerge for labels and got about 68
pages. i now want to insert page numbers.
i am using the avery standard 5160 and i set it to 9 per
page but after i insert the page numbers it does not