I've been using this to prepend an area code - if one is supplied - to
a phone number:
Phone: { IF { MERGEFIELD AreaCode1 } <> "" "{ MERGEFIELD AreaCode1 }-"
"" }{ MERGEFIELD Phone1 }

I have a data file that when I try to open it from Word, a file conversion
pop-up appears asking me to choose wich coding Iwant to
use(UTF8,Latin,etc..).
If I remove all lines but the first two, save, then, it opens fine.

Had Word 2000 and upgraded to 2003, hated it and went back to 2000. Now mail
merge letters that used to work fine in 2000 will not save the data source
(an Access 2000 database). Each time I open a mail merge document an error
message tells me the data source does not exist. I ...

i am sending out quotes to over 1000 companys for 3 differnt services...i
have them stored in microsoft excel under columns (g1-1400)(h1-1400) and
(i1-1400).   i also have their addresses stored in excel...i want my template
to read dear (name stored in excel)

I get the picture included that I want during a mail merge so long as the
{IncludePicture} does not appear within the body of truetext or falsetext
where truetext and falsetext are defined by {IF condition "truetext"
"falsetext"}.

Word 2003, Windows XP:
Our staff member has a merge document which uses a table in another word
document for its data source.  Both documents are on a network share drive,
and they can be properly merged and opened on many computers in our office.  

I have created a fax cover page using the professional fax format. It is
saved as a .dot format. How do I use this as my cover fax when using
microsoft fax?
I'm using windows xp 2nd service upgrade with  Office 2003

Same Table in 2 columns on a page and then merge data so that each merged
column displays the next record, NOT the same record twice on a page.

If I started a mail merge in a document and I selected the recipients. How do
I disconnect my document from this list if I don't want to merge Now every
time  I open the document a dialog box comes up saying it's going to run a
SQL command and tells me my document is attached to ...

When selecting a recipient list, the information is pulled up in a Mail Merge
Recipients box showing the info I need but when moving to the next step in
the Mail Merge process <<Next Record>> is all that shows up in the lable
boxes. How do I fix this?

I am merging an Excel list to a Word mail merge document. Many of the
number fields are arrving into Word with many digits to the right of
the decimal point. I went back to Excel to make sure thsoe cells were
formatted with no digits to the right of the decimal point but I am

I can't find where to access barcode for label / addresses in Word 2003. It
was OK in Word 2000. thanks.
rob

I have read the MVPs' warnings about the dangers of master documents. Can
anyone recommend a good alternative to master documents? I have 8
presentation documents that are comprised of multiple "recommendations." Some
of the recommendations are the same across all 8 presentation ...

OK all you clever ones will say a brain.....
I need to mail merge some data from an excel workbook, the workbook
consists of some 62 worksheets. 52 of which are identical structure but
with different (guess what ) weeks information in them.

I'm attempting an e-mail merge of a Word doc to Outlook using an Excel
datasource. All are Office 2003 SP2 on XP, latest updates applied. This same
e-mail merge worked just fine about 3 months ago, but now when I run the
merge, nothing happens.