I have a client who likes to merge a works database into word.  I am told
that the process was once easy, but now whenever we select the works database
to merge, the text encoding window appears with a lot of non - text
characters.

Does the following error still exist with word xp or later?
Is there a better workaround than that described in KB241269.
Does a real solution exist?
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i need to insert text from one file to another with an "includetext" field,
but doing so i have to specify the full path to the file. When both files
migrate to some other folders, the path obviously changes. Can i use a
'relative' form of the path (smth like ActiveDocument.Path ...

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I'm using Office XP.  I opened Word for MailMerge, an Excel database for the
name and email address, and the MailMerge Wizard.  I went through all the
steps, everything seemed to work well, but when I got to the last step and
hit Electronic Mail to merge to Outlook it appeared to ...

My main document often migrates from one location to another along with the
source Excel file. While merging it keeps remembering an old path to the
source. So it either finds the file with wrong data or doesn't find it at
all. Can I by any means make it look for the data source ...

I am trying to create labels from an excel spreadsheet containing names and
addresses.  I use the mail merge wizard in word. I should end up with 3 and a
half sheets of labels (30 labels to a sheet).  Instead, I'm ending up with
125 as it is putting one record on each page!

I have MS Office 2003 which includes MS Excel 2003 & MS Word 2003. I have
tried following the directions for Mail Merge with data from Excel to print
address labels and I am having a bit of a problem. I am able to do everything
correctly and select

I am trying to reset the record pointer back to the first record after having
gone through the records once in a previous section of the catalog merge
document.
I need something equivalent to «Next Record» such as "«First Record»".

When doing a mail merge from my outlook contacts dbase, there is no option to
map or use some of the information fields that are in my outlook contacts.  
Primarily, there is no option to map to my outlook "home phone" or "business
phone" field, which is the default for my outlook ...

nhen launching a mail merge document using an access database query as the
data source I now get an Alert Message advising "opening this document will
run SQL ........".   This Alert Message disrupts a Basic document automation
program I have written causing it to hang up.. ...

prior to the xp version, i did not have any problems doing a mail merge.  i
do not understand what these formulas are for.

When mail merging from Word to Outlook, it completes the merge, but then I
have to click Yes to confirm the message "A program is trying to
automatically send an email on your behalf ..."
Is there anyway to get around this? It's frustrating when you have 200

I am trying to create labels in Word 2003 from an Excel sheet.  I want to
arrange the labels vertically on the label sheet, instead of the default
horizontal.  Basically, instead of having the first record appear on the top
left label, and the next records following to the right ...

I keep going around in circles on this one and would appreciate any help. I
am merging from an access data base. I have several fields that need to be
formatted as currency. I have no problem getting a '$' as I can do that as
standard text...the problem is comma's.