Is there any way to insert a text form field in a text
box? I know that I can manually enter a field (ctrl + f9)
named formtext (or whatever it is), but this doesn't do
any good since I can't set the properties (I get an error

I am currently merging a Word document with an Excel document.   The Excel document contains some fields that have data that is greater than 255 characters.  I can get it to work on every computer except two.  I have gotten it to work in Word 2000/2002/XP.  It's currently not ...

What am I doing wrong?
Created list of 900 in Excel
Mail merge in Word using Mail Merge Wizard
Can only print and see one page of 30 labels in preview

If I set my datasource from the menu everything works. I can step
through all records and view them in the mailmerge document one at a

Is there a way to merge personalized charts into a word
doc. or to use the chart feature in word to pick up the
fields from each merged letter? I've got sales data by DSM
that I want to chart into commission statements.

I have a word merge document which calls a query in an
access database. It's worked for ages and has suddenly
stopped. Word hangs 'waiting for Microsoft Access to
Accept DDDE Commands. I'm using Access and Word 2000.

I have created a form using the form toolbar. I have
inserted several check boxes and would like to know how to
format them for online usage.  The have two problems as
followed:

I'm running Word97. I have a DOT template which runs a
macro. In the macro, I have an ADO connection to get my
data. I also have WordBasic.MailMergeOpenDataSource
statement which keeps bombing out with error 1535, saying

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From many years I know how to merge a DBF file with a Word document.
To make sure, I used a FOX2X table with columns char of memo.
Recently I needed to put some merge fields in the header or th

I am making a horse sale catalouge in word using data
from an Access database. I would like to display 4 horses
to a page. I can get 4 horses to a page but I cannot get
them in the correct order.

I am trying to merge data from an excel file into a word
document but the data is getting altered in the process.
So for example 23.05 in the excel file wil show up as
23.0499999999 in the word document after merging.

Is there a way to get the mail merge dialog box that showed up in Word 2000,
compared to the mail merge task bar that appears in Word 2003? I think the
mail merge way in previous versions was easier.
Thanks,

I have an Excel 2000 datasource which merges it's data into Word 2000.  I do
this by taking the data from sql server putting into VB doing my
calculations and then performing the mail merge.  Problem I'm having is when
using percentages, when I open up my datasource it is displaying ...

I am using Word & Access 2003.
Trying to mailmerge to email using my customers access data base,  using one
access text field that have stored two email address separated by semicolon
got the following check name error:

We have recently started running a Mail Merge from a large Access 97
Database.
i have descovered that if i  move my mouse in a circular motion after
starting the merge, it seems to run fine!