For some reason when merging from Excel to Word, word
converts the text to a zero(0).  There is only 4 cells
that have text in the the rest are numbers and show up in
a word document as that .... numbers.  What is cousing

If I change a DOCPROPERTY value, what is the fastest way to update all
DOCPROPERTY fields in the document?  I am using Edit | Select All and
F9 to update the DOCPROPERTY values.
Is there a better/faster way?

I am setting up a Word file to merge with an Excel
spreadsheet.  There will be only one record containing no
more than 30 fields, but there will be greater than 50
and less than 200 links (tables, graphs and individual

I am doing a mailmerge programatically from VB.NET to Word2000. Mailmerge
goes fine but the macro's and autotext are disabled. I think since I am
opening the template document programatically word is disabling the macro.
Is there a way to tell word to not do this?

I have read the help file over and over. It says open new doc and click "Mail
Merge" but I find no mail merge on my tools menu.  i am using Office 2000 and
have no idea why I can't make mail labels with excel data using word and
Avery labels.

Our ZIP codes here in the Northeast start with a 0 (zero). I have the column
formatted as a ZIP code in Excel 2003, but it keeps coming over to Word 2003
as a 4 digit number, cutting off the leading zero. Help!

I'm trying to merge postcards that are printing 2-sided, 2-
up on an 8.5x11 sheet.  The result I want is as follows:
(#=record, A/B= front/back)
1A

Whenever I do a mailmerge from excel to word, all of the
zipcodes that start with a zero on excel lose the zeros
in word, so all of the zipcodes come out wrong

This post is a thread based on the earlier post on
September 11 with the same name.  I had the same issue,
tried what was suggested and it did not work.
I am using Word XP SP3 & Windows XP

Have a spreadsheet that has a column with room numbers i.e. 101, 102, 2A, 2B.
When merging these room numbers into Word the room numbers consistenting of
alpha characters act as nonexistent.  I have tried General, Number, Text, and
even created my own Special format but nothing ...

When using mergefields, how do you insert an intelligent
page break?  Data is already sorted (grouped), now we
need page breaks placed for each "group" of data.
Ex.  Select name, address, city, state

I succeeded in making my first Word 2002 mail merge document, using an Excel
address list as the data source. All the letters print properly, but to
print them I had to use the preview arrows and print each one, individually.
I remember doing this in Word97 and havig Word just print ...

If we have, for example, a customer name that appears
multiple times in a standard document, how do we creat a
field so that the name only has to be entered once and
the rest of the entries automatically update?

We recently converted to Word 2003 and when I create a
data source, the default location to save it is My
Documents, My Data Source.  We want our staff to use our
network drive to save all documents so we instruct them to

i have a project to create custom labels for filing. in my excel table i
have a column indicating if a customer has ordered or not. and i want to
change the style of the label to be different from those that have
ordered so that we can just look into the filing case and see who ...