Several years ago I wrote an application that retrieves address field data
from a UNIX database, writes the data out to a tab-delimited text.txt file on
the local PC's C: drive, then calls Word to merge the addresses with
formatted Word documents.

We hava a fairly large WordPerfect 12 mailmerge list that we would like to
convert to Word XP. Anybody know how we can do that?
Leon

i need to make name tags and when i do the merge it keep the same name on
all 4 tags on a single sheet.  i would like to have 4 different names on each
sheet,, please help

I'm creating a school directory using mail merge in a book style format.  My
data source is also a Word file.  I have 2 columns set up for each page and
am having a problem with the records not staying together.  I have tried
various combinations of Window and Orphans, Keep Lines ...

MS Word Help gives several great examples of using IF...THEN...ELSE with the
=AND operator but I have yet to find a way to compose the statement.  I keep
getting: Error! Unknown op code for conditional
As far a 'free' help the closest I have come is Hans from Woody's Lounge who

Where can I find how to create a table using merged data fields - where each
row displays the many lines of data for each table and not new page(document)
for each row of data?

Trying to export Outlook names & addresses to Word mailmerge to create
envelopes.  Can't create the Outlook file that Word needs to access.  Also,
how do you save a standard envelope format to drop this data into?
Thanks

I am trying to  get over 150 different addresses to be printed on labels. I
think it would save so much time, not to do them one by one. Therefore, I was
wondering how i can get to add all the addresses to my personal address book.
I know how to use the mail merge but im not sure on ...

I am using an Excel Spreadsheet as the source for a mail merge.  I cannot get
the cell formatting to carry over into the merged word document.  For example
the date field will not bring over the correct format it always puts it into
the following format:  dd/mm/yyyy

When using Excel and Access as the data file and merging into Word the date
format changes from English to US.  How can I stop this and retain the
English format?

I have an HTML document that I want to send out to my mailing list.
I load it into word using the email merge function.  It all looks great in
word and the links all work.
I send out the mailing, but when the people get it none of the links work,

I have a date that I use to send the letters out and I set the letters up a
month in advance. When I am doing the mail merge the date that is set to the
Excel is being changed to today's date that I am creating it. Is there a way
that I can get it to stay at the right date that I ...

One of my users was trying to print just a few pages of a 72 page mail merge
address and was trying to use the print page range function from the print
menu. she would choose page 15 for example and select it in the printer
dialog box for selecting a page or range but nothing ...

Numbers in my Word mailmerge from Excel after upgrading do not show the cents
(.00) if the number is even, and if in it isn't a whole number it may show up
as 34.999666.  How do it get it to merge as just  a number with 2 decimal
places?

I am currently setting up a Word doc that will contain multiple tables based
on 100's of queries from Ms Access.  I understand the how to , but not why I
am unable to view the complete list of queries from my Access mdb only those
queries with a single table source or the tables ...