Merging from excel, field is set for zip in excel, dropping the first zero
when merging into letters and envelopes.  How do I change the field
attributes so word does not drop the zero in that field??
Thanks

i have always been able to filter my excel lists in mail merge by clicking on
the arrow next to the column heading in view Mail Merge Recipients.  All of a
sudden, i am not able to click on the arrows.  It does nothing.  I am also
not able to click on the column heading to sort ...

I like to use a directory and then make labels from that directory, however,
I cant seem to figure how to make labels from a directory...mail merge and
etc.

I am a novice, at best, with Mailmerge and Excel, and have run into a problem
that is driving me crazy.  I am trying to create envelopes using data from an
Excel spreadsheet.  I have 60 or so names and addresses in the spreadsheet,
but the spreadsheet itself still shows about 65 ...

Hi,  I recently updated from office 2000 to 2003.
I had several letters created in word 2000that merged and worked correctly
with acesss 2000.
I updated the database to access 2003.  I'm trying to merge a letter with a

How do I hide the DataSource dialog and the Header dialog on mail merge?
For example, when the following code runs, I don't want to see it:
   If ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Name = "" Then
       MergeSetup

I'm trying to create a word document with information merged from excel.  I
can't get the numbers to round to 2 digits after the decimal point.  Once the
information is merged into the word document it carries the full number.  
I've tried rounding the excel cells first, but that ...

I seem to have inadvertently disabled the mailmerge toolbar button View Merge
data.  Using Word 2003.  Access 2002

MS OFFICE v. 2002
I would like to format a merge field in a Word mail merge document like the
telephone number formating in Excel, 3 digits for area code-3 digits
exchange-4 digits number, with the dashes.  The data bases I'm using are

I have created a form document that contains formtext fields and dropdown
fields. I want to add individual data using a mail merge from Excel CSV file.
The merge works fine however only the dropdown fields appear in the new
merged document. The formfields are lost.

I have some documents in word 2003 which have embedded objects (these
embedded objects are some word mailmerge documents). Whenever I open any of
these documents, I get a dialogue box which says "this document contains
links to other files. do you want to update this document ...

MY PRINTER KEEPS PRINTING GOBBLDY GOOK EVEN AFTER I TURN IT OFF (HOPING TO
CLEAR IT) WHEN I TURN IT ON AGAIN ITCONTINUES PRINTING GOBBLDY GOOK. IT HAS A
MIND OF IT'S OWN AT THE MOMENT!

I have 300 35-page documents to create.  I would like to use mail merge to
speed up creating a "unique" number in each file.  I'll then be emailing them
individually.  This requires having mail merge save the merged data in
separate files, rather than a single 117 MB file.  Is ...

I am having trouble trying to suppress the printing of blank lines, eg one
line of address that may be missing, when printing mail merge documents.  I'm
using Word 2002 but can't find anywhere to 'check a box' to stop blank lines
printing as was available in earlier versions.

I have used the Insert "Next Record" which does exactly what I want but it
leave me stuck in the "Next Record." How do I get back to the previous
record? It seems like there should be a "Previous Record" command but I can't
find it.