when I mail merge and choose an excel spreadsheet as the source I used to get
a box that said It will run an sql command and then a box saying it needed to
use the excel worksheet text converter--I said yes and all was good.  Now, I
do not get that second box but get a box called ...

I am using Office 2003 Enterprise with SP2 and latest patches.
I created a spreadsheet used for laptop inventory that has plain old text
fields, some date fields, and some calculated date fields
(=IF(ISBLANK(Q2),"",+Q2+60)).

I have an excel document with x number of lines for x number of records (each
record is identified by a unique reference) - is there some way I can
automatically save a merged document (ie letter) for each record (which will
be one or more pages) rather than keep filtering and ...

Word(office) 2k, winxp.
Followed instructions @
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm
and converted one of 7 pages as a test. It worked fine.

I'm doing some merges with over 300 documents and sometimes a few of them
(1-10) will do something really weird. All of the characters pile up in the
merge fields. It looks similar to what used to happen with old dot matrix
printers when the carriage would get stuck and print the ...

When I mail merge addresses the first address that should appear on the top
of each page does not appear in the merge? Is there a setting that I am
missing?

Trying to print mail merge- over 100 recipients 2 pages per--need to print
odd pages from one printer drawer(page 1 preprinted letterhead) and even from
another drawer(page 2 preprinted letterhead). I found in page set-up where
you can print page 1 from one drawer and "other ...

Does anyone know if it is possible 'out-of-the-box' to use a URL as the
data source for a mail merge or whether there are any plans to support
this? I'd have thought with the backing that MS are giving web services
this is one of the first things they'd have put into Office 2007.

I am trying to put numbers into a merged document, actually dollars and
cents.  The result are not showing the dollar sign ($) and the decimals is
wrong.  How do I correct this.

I am running Office 2003. I export a CSV file from an application. I then
save the CSV as an Excel file, XLS, that is used as input into a Mail Merge.
One of the columns, and numeric field that represents the students school
grade, does not show up in word.

        im new to vba.n i have searching for the code for a specific
requirement in which i need to print mail merge document for each row
of an excel .
     my excel format is as follows and a mail merge document is also

Hello. I've used Word 2000 many times to print mail merge letter projects.
The data source for all of these has been presorted mailing data created by
PostalSoft. I typically export the presorted data and save it in an Excel xls
format. In addition to normal name, address, city, ...

Products: Word & Access 2003 Professional
Hello MVP's,
Although I have been working with Word and mail merges for many years I have
never had the need to resize variable text "on-the-fly" until now.  Normally,

Hi
i have a mail merge document which I want to use over and over again.  But i
Have found that if the previous user has filtered the recipients and I want
to filter them but in a different way I, at step 2/3 of the mail merge

I am trying to mail merge an Excel file into a mailing label format.  The
following message comes up "Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to
Microsoft Excel to complete the  current task"  WHat does that mean and how
can I fix it?