I am creating a word mail merge where when a certain criteria is met, a named
sheet from an excel wookbook is imported.  I have managed to get the workbook
to import but i need to select which sheet each time.  Is there any code I
can enter in the if statement so that it ...

I need some help for mailmarge from an access database.
The database holds ItemID, ItemNotes, and the name of the picture of the
item in the filesystem.
If the ItemID is Ko05K00101, the picture is in /slides and the name is

In Word 2000 or 97, the following fields used to work fine:
{if  {DOCVARIABLE X \ *MERGEFORMAT} <>"." (condition)
{QUOTE {DOCVARIABLE X \*MERGEFORMAT} \@ "dd/mm/yy" \*MERGEFORMAT} (show this
if true)

When I open the Tools menu in Word, this incredibly long list of "mail
merge...." keeps repeating (probably 20 times or so?).  How do I get rid of
this?
Thanks!

MS WORD does not give me the ability to search a text field to see if
it "contains" a certain word, which then can trigger a "Then"
statement.  Can it be done?
EX: IF Mergfield Q2 contains the word "cost" insert the following

I have an extensive list of contacts in Microsoft Outlook.  Several times
now,  I have send out e-mails to my list by highlighting the contacts I want
to send to and doing a "Mail Merge" using Word.  Once in Word, I type the
e-mail and merge it and one by one they all go to my ...

I have full access to someone else's contacts and can do a mail merge with
these contacts from within Outlook; however, if I'm starting my mail merge in
Word, I can only view MY own contacts.  Is there a way to change this?

I have Outlook 2000 and Word 2000. Mail merge works fine except for one
thing: no text formating is preserved and no pictures inserted when creating
emails to the Outlook Outbox. When I look at Outbox in Outlook all mailes
generated are n PLAIN TEXT.

My company recently got Office 2003.  In the previous version of Word, I was
able to view the data source when merging documents by going into the main
document and clicking a button.  Now it looks as though in order to view and
edit the data source, you have to go into it by ...

I have perused previous posts but I wasn't sure I saw exactly what I was
looking for. So I'll post my question here...
I have to execute an e-mail merge in word.
I will be given an excel spreadsheet to begin with. The data in the

I have lots of folks in my work area who want a blank sheet of labels that
they can type unique addresses into. Is it not possible to do that without
creating my own table from scratch with all the proper dimensions?

I have an excel sheet that I'm printing a directory from.  There are 4
fields at the end of the sheet that I would like printed out when the
mailmerge takes place.
However, what happens is that the mailmerge hangs up my computer for

I'm having problems configuring my mergefields to report a blank as opposed
to a "0" from an empty MSExcel field.    These are text fields, but I can't
figure out how to set up the IF..THEN test.   Any help would be appreciated.  
Thank you

Hi --
Okay -- having reviewed previous posts -- i'm not exactly sure if I have
already seen the answer to my inquiry, so I'm going to go ahead and post my
question and get a concrete answer for my specific goal.

I have Office 2003 and Windows XP SP2, and when I'm trying to do a mailmerge
from one of my Excel spreadsheets, I've started geteting an error that says:
'This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine
failures. Please try again later.'