After selecting recipients to merge in my letter, the address 2 field is
appearing. It's only supposed to show the information as shown in the
database (i.e. ATTN: XXXX). However, it is picking up ATTN: and including the
address twice. When I try to edit the recipient list, the ...

Used an excel file to create labels last month.  then modified the file,
adding a column of info.  Now when I select that file as my source, it
appears in Word mail merge as if the new column doesn't exist.

Can anyone explain what is happening here -
I've got a 5 cell table, including a first item of data and 4 "next records"
linked to an excel sheet with 100 records in it. When I click the button to
"merge to new document", I can see in the status bar it seems to be

MS Word will happily let me mail merge to create a single large file.
But I want a bunch of little files!
How might I run a mail merge or macro that would create a seperate text
file (.txt) for each letter?

We use mail merge in our application and for one our clients it is
throwing the above error while generating the mail merge document. This
happens when I invoke the OpenDataSource() method.
The code for opening the spreadsheet looks something like this:

I'm trying to use a textfile (with 508 fields) as a datasource for
mailmerge.
In Word 2000 this file works, but the same file used in Word 2003/2007
doesn't work (the dot, that uses this file as a datasource is loaded and

In Outlook, you can flag emails and set reminders with the flags. For
example, you click the flag, right-click, select set reminder, and you
can be reminded of the email at a future time.
Is it possible to do the same thing on a form field in Word? For

I'm having trouble with word adding lots of extra XML data into my
emails that I don't want!
I have used Script editor to insert my HTML into the word document
structure, but in the end I gave up and used copy and paste into word

I was using a rather large excel file as my database to merge a number of
different word documents into emails. it was working fine and then one day it
just didn't work. it kept on taking me to the internet connection wizard
which i was told meant that it was trying to start ...

I'm currently using Microsoft Word for Windows® 97. I have created the
MailMerge the DataSource is from Excel, where I do all my calculations.
Now, I want to lock the mailMerge word document  so that users cannot edit
anything from this word document.

how do i keep the formatting when merging from excel to word
eg at the moment its transferring as...
excel  50%; $12.30
word  .5    ; 12.3

I'm currently using Microsoft Word for Windows® 97. I have created the
MailMerge the DataSource is from Excel, where I do all my calculations.
Now, I want to lock the document that results from the mail
merge so that people cannot edit that document.

I have to take a ton of variables and change the names..
Luck has it that they are formatted the same
Q9BOB
Q10Carl

Hi Pros,
Happy new year.
I have a mail merge question.
After completing the mail merge, i get a single combined merged file.

I have made a merge template with a filename in the footer (using INSERT,
FIELD, and file name with full path).
After the merge is complete, the footer is not updating -not when I print it
or save it or preview it or close then open it!  Is there some other command