I have a document template containing a number of FILLIN
fields.
Unforunately the order that the fields ask for information
is not correct, not sure why but possibly because of the

Is there any way to adjust or, in particular, expand the
amount of characters that are imported into a mergefield?
The text that I am merging into my document template is 30
characters, but when the MailMerge is completed, it only

When I merge data from an Excel sheet, only the first 259
characters are retrieved in any particular field. Is this
a known problem - any fixes (other than splitting the data
between 2 fields)?

I am a mailmerge newbie, & apologize if this has been covered umpteen times (I have checked back in the log, but can't find anything to cover this).
Doing 180 wedding invitation envelopes for a friend (from Excel spr.sheet) so need formalities thus:
Mr & Mrs Thomas Smith (if ...

My database contains the following: section, company,
name, phone, fax, cell, address, city state zip
When I open mail merge recipients, the order of these
columns have changed.  The new order is company, address,

I used ask fields with bookmarks with success, however
the only problem is that some parts of the filled in info
is bolded and the codes are not bolded.
As well, I would prefer that the error messages "Error

I am attempting to merge multiple datasource records into
a single document.  The datasource is a Word document
containing a single table which in turn contains multiple
payment line item records.  The file to merge the

Guys,
I have an Access database and one field is Date sent. It's set up in the format dd/mm/yyyy. When I mail merge to Word the date is changed back to mm/dd/yyyy when my client prefers it the other way. How can I set it so Word keeps it in the format of dd/mm/yyyy?

I have a user who has a document with some graphics in it
and is using an Excel merge file with about 8000 records.
We are getting errors sending to a printer. If I print to
a file, it takes over 10 hours to process and produces a

Using Word&Excel 2000 on Windows 2000
If I do a mail merge in Word with data in EXCEL, than Word supposes the
first Excel-Row to contain the field-names and the following Excel-Rows
contains the data

I am a developer, and my application writes a file
intended for mail merge use.  The field delimiter is a tab
and the record delimiter is a carriage return.  The first
record is a header to define the fields.

I have recently upgraded from 2000 to 2003 and I am using
mail merge for the first time in 2003. I have created my
own address list within word and I have entered company
names. When I did my first merge I noticed that the

Word 2002-sp1
I am using MailMerge to Avery 8237 Post cards (2x2) I.n
master doc I have inserted the postal bar code for the
Send To Address (which appears on the screen). When I do

The Mail Merge feature in Word 2002 is easy as pie, but not if you want to include JobTitle from Outlook.  One is given the option of all fields from Outlook but with a glaring difference with regard to JobTitle -- Word lists it as "Title," which in my Outlook program is not ...

I'm trying to merge a template with sequential numbers.  I
can get the first (label/template) to merge the first
number but can't get the remaining numbers to merge.  What
am I doing wrong?