I am trying to create name badges that are filled when the members arrive, so
they are blank.  However, I would like to put the official logo as a
watermark on the label, so it is just not plain white.  Any suggestions?

I have to prepare a letter and the client has requested that the full stop
after a person's initial be removed. This is in our mainframe database like
this and as such can't be removed from there. Is there a way to use part of a
field or tell it to remove punctuation? I am using ...

Now that Excel can accommodate more than 256 columns is there a way of
constructiong a merge with more than 256 fields?
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1 ) I have a mail merge function that constantly adds an extra page to the
resulting documents I have read eqarlier posts here and followed them but Im
still getting the extra page.
2) How do I stop the document flickering Ive added code that Ive used for

How do you make Word 2003 mail merge work with Exchange 2003

Here's what I'm trying to do.  I need to print out 50 reports that will be on
11"x17" paper and my duplexer will staple and fold them automatically.
Here's the problem:  when I mail merged the reports to personalize them and
then sent them to the printer, it seems like it is sending ...

In Word 2007, Avery J8160 labels all print incorrectly.  It appears the first
line indent has permanently moved into the margin and has now become default.
How do I correct this?

I am trying to bring dollar amouts from ecell to word.  At present the
figures are coming across but not in the right format.  No $ is showing and
when cents are involved it extend out 4 demical places.  How do I get it to
bring over excatly what is shown in the spread sheet?

I am more familiar with doing a mail merge in WordPerfect but need to also
function in Word. When doing a merge in order to simply produce a list of
names, in WordPerfect I would insert a code "Page Off" which would place all
the names on the same page instead of individual pages ...

I want to merge consecutive names on a lablel format and not have any repeats.

Now that Excel 2007 can have more than 256 columns can Wrod 2007 increase the
number of fields that can be merged? Excel has useful entries in HELP - like
"Excel specifications & limits" - Word doesn't seem to have anything similar
and I can't seem to track down an answer.

Help!  I have an action item log that is in an excel spreadsheet (which of
course most people do not read).  I need to be able to issue the action items
as tasks so that I can keep track of people's progress.  How can I do this as
a mail merge?

My source is a MS Access query; my problem is the way the merged date is
displayed in the mailmerge document:
2006-03-20 00:00:00
How do I get it to display in this format? March 20, 2006?

When I Merge a word document with e-mail addresses (I USE MAIL MERGE -
ELECTRONIC MAIL) from an excel database, and send it as an attachment,
Outlook doesn't insert my default signature in to the body text of the mail
(containing the

Wne I open a Access 2007 database as a source in Word 2007 (or in
Excel 2007) I can see some of the Queries but not all of them.
There is no obvious commonality between those in either category (show/
noshow). For example both the queries shown and the queries not shown