Dear Word Gurus,
I am assisting one of my staff members, who is trying to mail merge a 5-page
letter with an Excel spreadsheet.  We have set it to prompt for a connection,
and chosen the DDE option. All was working fine for a while.  However, now

I have a document which is a table made up of 4 cells (making accreditation
passes), each cell has 3 merge cells.  When I setup the merge though, it
makes all 4 cells of the table the same merge record and then the next merge
record is on the next page - again all 4 cells.

Does anyone know how to re-establish the dde links between word and an excel
spreadsheet range? Every so often this error message appears for no reason I
can tell. Both from office 2000.

I can not get the Greeting Line to say "Dear Ms. Wall".  It will say "Ms.
Wall" or "Dear Sir or Madam".

I'm using Words2000 with an excel data source.
I am working on a report with the document in landscape and two columns.
Is there a way to use Merge and Word Fields and in the Headers and Footers?
Thanks,

This is based on Word & Excel 2003 on XP,
THE OBVIOUS:
When someone uses Excel2003 to create a database for Word2003: Mail Merge
the FIRST row is where all the headers go: Last Name, First Name, SSN, DOB,

from an Excel file that will print a template document

Sorry for this long winded explanation.
I am trying to create a report using Word 2000 with Mail Merge. My data
source is an Excel file with around 350 records, each containing around 100
elements.

I'm putting together a mail merge document, and I want to be able to take
today's date, and add 20 days to it and have that date print in the final
document.
So for example, if today was October 13 - I would want to print a sentenance

Since XML is becoming a cross-platform data standard it would be nice to have
it as a possible datasouce for Word MailMerge.  
I think I can do what I need to by importing the XML into Excel or Access,
then merging from there, but that seems overly cumbersome, complicated and

I am transferring data from Excel to Mail Merge in word for labels and I only
get 1 page of data when I should have more like 30.

I have an interesting dilemma:
I work for a hospital and, as a courtsey, we provide "custom lab test
profiles" for the doctor's office in the area. Every year we have to send out
'authorization' forms that bascially say which tests are in the profile, what

I often use the the mail merge tool in my work. Occasionally I merge the
records to printer or to new documents. When I merge them to new document the
records are being split by page breaks into one single file. Is it possible
to merge the records to new documents - each of them ...

I have a mail merge document that I used the fill-in code for a date that
needs to be entered in the body of the letter.  Unfortunately, the client
using this has "outdated" computers and when the msg box appears asking for
the fill-in, it's locking up their system.

how do i get the 1000 separator on the mail merged document