I am merging from an Access phone/address database.  In
Access I am using an input mask to make the phone numbers
look like, well, phone numbers.  But when I merge them to
Word, the formating (dashes and spaces) disappear.

Dear All
      thank U in advance.
  What I need is detailed merging process guide,if
possible please send me using this e-mail.

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written.

I have made a mail merge document, between word 97 and
access 97.
Now we're going to update to Office 2003. So I'm testing
if it works.

How do I get my labels to print down instead of across.
The data is already sorted by zip then last, first, but I
want the order they are merged on the labels to be down
instead of across.

I want to put a header row in my merge,that is in a table,
that only prints when the merge goes to the next page.

I have a large merge to do with a four page original document. The orginal document, in its footer, shows
" Page 1 of  4
The problem is that when I do the merge - into a new document - suddenly that becomes (i.e. 100 recipients
" Page 1 of 400

I have several merge letters set up for my company and I
am finding that I can not do a spell check on the merged
fields.  
I run the spelling and grammer check and it says it

I need to extract name and insert in letter I have written.
After the 'Dear'.  I have my original database queries in
Access as well as the Mail Merge label files I created.
I have used Access and Word Mail Merge for 2 months and

We have upgraded from 1998 to Word 2003 and have tried to mail merge several times and encountered problems.  I have printed the information from the help button and am still having problems.  Can you help me?

I am having dificulty sorting a mail merge document
(before I actually merge the information to a new
document).  I am using MS Word 2000 with Win 98se and
merging from an Access address database.

I'm trying to merge to email, but the option is not
available, only new document and printer options are shown.
I have Outlook 2000 with the Internet email service
installed.

I created a mailer using workd and within the body of the
mailer I created a excel spreadsheet within MS word.  I
did a mail merge and it worked fine.  I want to merge
some fields into the excel spreadsheet which is in word

I am trying to use a form created in word with Excel as a database providing merge information. The form consists of a logo as well as discrete tables and text boxes which receive merged information. When I carry out the initial merge the document produced is fine, looks ok on ...

I am working on a web based application, which is supposed to do mail
merge amongst other things.
All the processing is done on the back end using Visual Basic dlls.
This means that the mail merge process has to be fully automated as well.