After my mail merge, can I (instead of opening a new word document), open a
template (that has nothing but code in it?) so that all users will have
access to the code contained in this template, instead of having to know
their template paths or using an addin?

I am trying to connect to an Oracle database thru Word.  The connection
wizard allows me to sign onto the database and pick which table I need.  
However, after I choose 'open source', the above error message is received
and nothing from the table is displayed.  Any help or ...

Word cannot re-establish a DDE connection to excel to copmplete the current
task
I have been using mail merge for a while now, word doc, excel spreadsheet,
and every now and again this message comes up, I dont understand how it

Would like to do a mail merge of information in an excel spreadsheet into a
word document - any ideas

Can I automate Header Mail Merge using VB6 in office XP?
I updated user from Word2000 to WordXP and now the page header shows the
mailmerge fieldname instead of the data.  <<MailMergeFieldName>>  But the
page number is still working.  

I am trying to merge labels from an existing list. It won't let me get past
Step 3 or 6 to merge. I use Miscrosoft Word 2003. Anyone else have this
trouble. It will let me set up the labels, but won't actually merge the
addresses into the labels.

When I merge my database into a word file, dates change from dd/mm/yy to
mm/dd/yy and number have an extra 7 decimal places to what is in the data
base - please help!

We are trying to run a mail merge where we only want it to go to the next
record if the ID number on the next record is DIFFERENT from the ID number on
the current record.  If the ID numbers are the same, we want to continue on
the same document.  

I know that using a text file as a data source, I can exceed the 255 field
limit for a mail merge data source. I would like to know though what is the
limit with a text file?
Thanks

I've got an Excel 2003 spreadsheet with some data formatted to 1
decimal place, e.g. 10.5
I've also got a Word 2003 mail merge document which used the 1 dp
formatted data in that spreadsheet.

I am trying to get a mail merge to put city into a table, show all records
for the city into a second table on the same page and then start a new page
whenever the city changes.  
I tried to use the following code from Microsoft KB but it does not work:

I've been doing a Mail Merge using an Excel Spreadsheet as the data source
using VB.NET.  Can I just do it directly from my VB.NET code using a DataSet
I have in the code?  Thanks.

i have a database in access 2002 with 10 tables and 7 queries.  when i try to
mail merge it with word, only 5 tables and 4 queries are visible.   the rest
of them just aren't there.  i have no idea what to do...any tips or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I want to create some merged documents using MS Word.  These messages will be
merged and sent via email.  But I want to make sure I maintain all formatting
including tables, etc.  Any ideas?

Can you insert a text box into a word mail merge document simply based on an
if the else statement? I want this text box to only show up for certain
individuals. The text box itself contains a daisy chain of if,then,else's. It
took me a while to create all the code inside the box ...