what code would i use to open 'Mail Merge Recipients' automaticly when
i open the document?
(using word 2002)
thanks, Any help would be greatly appreciated

Can anyone help with these please. I have just started using Word 2003,
coming from Word 2000.
Question 1
Using an Excel spreadsheet as the data source I regularly produce a set of

I have searched high and low for this, yet may be so simple. WORD 2000
What I am trying to accomplish is have an if..then...else check 2 conditions
rather than just one. I want to say if applicant = 4 and term = 6 "ok it
passes" "no it doesn't pass"

I created a 2 page Main Document then merged it with an Excel data file.  It
pushed 2 lines from page 1 onto page 2 and pushed everything else (formerly
page 2) to a new 3rd page.  I am using Word in Office 2003 - what happened?
Thanks.  Rich

Hi --
I need to send a document out using Word's (2003) e-mail merge function. But
-- I wanted to control the "from" address that the recipient would see. I
don't want any e-mails to come back directly to me...they need to go to

Can just names be pulled from a mailmerge and copied in to make name tags in
the label section?

We are trying to mail merge from Excel to Word.
-  The $ sign in Word is not captured from Excel as the cell is formatted
with the Currency sign
-  Also when we are creating a roster list or directory that has to be

I would like to include contacts from a single category in Outlook 2003
within Word 2003 mailmerge.

I'm in the process of starting an invitation/announcement business.  The
envelopes are hand made and I have a need to address them via mail merge in
Word from a template I created in Excel.
Since I can't really feed a square sheet of paper through a printer on a 45

I have a doc that I need to put the same info in several places.
What I have done is to use a form field to input the data and bookmarked it
as, say "Name"
I've then used a mailmerge field {REF Name} in the other places I need the

When I print the word document the "if" function prints and not th
graphic! How do I resolve this?
TimTDP Wrote:

Trying to do a mail merge and in Word 2003 we are missing the Microsoft Excel
Worksheet via Converter option (only have OLE DB, ODBC, and via DDE). If we
click Show All, still do not see that option. The option shows the data how
we need it on another computer.

I have a file with 150 names.  I would like to number each name 1- 150
automatically in a label mail merge.  I go to Insert, Field, click on
numbering, then listnum, then number each label, 1-20, on the mail merge
page, then update labels.  After I merge, I get each page of ...

Hi there.  I'm in the process of starting an invitation/announcement
business.  The envelopes are hand made and I have a need to address them via
mail merge in Word from a template I created in Excel.  The problem is that I
need to be able to print on a 45 degree angle.  Is there ...

When trying to merge a large data file I get the following error.
'Word could not finish merging these documents or inserting this database'.
Does anyone know what could have caused this and how to fix the problem.
The mail merge gets up to about 200 records before it crashes out.