I'm accessing a database via a RDP connection using TS 2000. All is working
fine except for one problem with mail merges with Microsoft Word. When a
user does a mail merge the data source is exported to this directory:
C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro 6\datasource.mer

When merging in Word with Access the date format is US
rather than UK how can I change this.

i am using the envelope wizard and chooseing the "create
envelopes for a mailing list" option. i get the the sport
where i can select recipients > choose option "use an
exsiting list" > then i brose for the file > i find my

Images and formatting disappear when I mail merge to
Outlook from a Word document  I'm using Office 2000.
Ideas?

I would like to send a mail merged document as an email
useing Word 2003 with an attachment. is this possible?
How?
Erik

We recently upgraded to Office 2003 and have discovered a
problem with our existing mail merge documents.  We have
several documents that use a query within an Access
database as the data source.  The problem relates to the

I understand how insert different words conditionally into a Merge document.
E.G.:  if (Mergefield lastname) = "Smith"  type "Good Guy"  else type "Bad
Guy"
How do I conditionally insert Mergefields instead of words?  EG:  if

I have created mailing labels with Word, using an Excel as the data source.
When I add new records to the datasource, it does not show up in the labels.
Upon opening the labels after adding data,  I get a message "Opening this document with run the following SQL command...etc.." ...

I am doing a mail merge between word and a .txt file where
depending on the shoppers details their date due could be
any day of the month they specify.  Is there a was to add
a superscripted st, nd, rd, th depending on the date in

I would like to test whether multiple (more than 2)
conditions are met before returning the true value - I
have tried to do this with nested "AND" and "COMPARE"
statements nested in IF statements (as below), however

I use this code to insert mergefields filled by an Access DB  into a
document .
ActiveDocument.FormFields("txtWerkNaam").Select
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range,

We have a form set up in Word. We use this form to merge
other word documents as they use the same data. Since we
have put on service pack 3 for office XP we get I get
prompted twice to pull the data from this file and put it

I have a serious problem migrating an Access-application I wrote form
Access 2000 to AccessXP. I had integrated a mailmerge fuction in my
database which opened a WORD object and did all the merging stuff in it.
Since I installed OfficeXP, my mailmerge wont work anymore.

I have a list of clients in an Access database.  Each client has a meeting
that takes place on a specific day of a given month each year: e.g., "second
Monday in July."  I am creating a Mail Merge in Word from this database.  I
need to have "second Monday in July" merge as "July 12, ...

I am trying to print some envelopes with word 2003 and I can't get the merge function to work properly.
I am using csv data with headers.  Word sees the files and displays them sorted correctly.  When we execute the merge, all the labels and envelopes have the same msg : <<Next ...