I am doing a mail merge from Excel into Word,it all works
fine but the dates are displayed in the Merged document in
the American format (06/14/2004) - I need to have it in
the British format (14/06/2004)

Is there any way to merge fields based on conditions, e.g.
if the field for <<CFOName>> is empty, the field will be
filled with <<AltName>>?

A2K2 WinXPPro.  Created Mail merge linking to table in .mde file.  Works fine.  Edited odc file with notepad to change from .mde to .mdb.  Same table, same format in both db's.  Doesn't seem to recognize change in odc file.  Searched for all odc files on my computer.  Double ...

In a simple mail merge from Excel to Word. The charachters seem to be stacked on top of one another once it gets merged. This seems to only occur in certian label templates, especially the Hanging Folder Inserts 1/3 tab. Any idea why this would happen?

I am able to merge a conditional number of records into
one document using a method very similar to Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article 105888.  My problem is that I need
to do this twice in the same document (I will refer to

I'm using office XP and am trying to use mail merge with
an Excel spreadsheet. Everything is OK except for when I
click to edit the data source the edit button is greyed
out. Is there a way that I can edit/add data from this

I connect to a Microsoft SQL Server 8 database over the internet to
retrieve the content of a table to  be put into a mail merge document
using the OLD DB providers for ODBC or SQL Server. Connection to the
database from Word is very slow though. When opening the document more

I have a mail merge with an Access query that I have been
using for some time and have added another field to the
query (e-mail) but it won't recognise it in the word merge.
I am using DDE. Actually this is happening to two queries

I have a linked Excel table in my Word document that when
flows through to another page, causes the error "The
memory could not be read". I have a page header that also
contains linked fields. So when the linked table is spread

CANNOT ESTABLISH A DDE CONNECTION BETWEEN WORD 2000 AND
EXCEL 2000

What is the proper syntax for using the or() function within a formula field?  I want to use a simple if-then-else formula using the or function with a merge field result.  But, I can't figure out the proper syntax for th or function.  For example, if the result of a mergefield ...

I have a list of 400+ addresses in a list in Word 2000.  
I have a couple questions.  
1. How do I sort by zipcode for mailing purposes?
2. How do I sort by last name (which is the last word on

I have a mail merge in Word 2002 with an Excel 2002
spread sheet as it data source.  The values in one column
are two decimal place numbers, but when the data is
brought into Word some of the numbers come across with

In my "Merge to:" pull down electronic mail and fax is not
there as an option.  I have installed Fax through XP Pro
and I have set up Outlook for faxes. I don't know where to
look.  I have a Publisher Flyer I want to broadcast fax to

This is a rather complex problem.
We have a client who prints several different merged letters each night.  From their database, they select which letter is supposed to be printed for each of their customers.  (Currently, they are making a separate exported table for each letter ...