when I choose an xlsm file to be a data source, i pick an excel sheet.  But
when it merges.  the field names are the first row of data as opposed to
Name, etc.  How can this be solved?
thanks

I have created a mail merge using excel as the database.
Every time I run the merge the numbers appear with lots of decimal places no
matter which number format I use in excel.
I tried just copying the numbers in to word & then recopying them back to

I have created a mailmerge letter document using my contacts from Outlook. I
have enabled the "sharing" option on my contacts and assinged "owner" status
to my assistant. We work off of different machines.
My assistant can "see" my contacts in her Outlook client on her computer,

I am out of touch, being used to sending out with mail merge so have no idea
where to put addresses and how to merge them for an e mail press release,
anybody out there can help I would be immensely grateful thank you

I have an Excell data base that I convert to a Word directory.  It has
addresses, phone numbers, comments, etc.  When it is converted to a directory
if there is no information in the Excell column then Word puts in a "0".  I
want to get rid of that zero.  How?

What I'd like to do is mail merge from my data source into a Word table.
So, in order to put more than one record on a page, I use the NEXT field
code on each new row. The problem with this is that if I have 20 rows per
page and, say, use only 15, there are now 5 blank, but ...

I've finaly figured out an effecient way to make flashcards except one
problem.
In an excel file I have two columns, one for each side of the flash card. I
then do a mail merge with a small size label ie. name badge (2.1" by 3.5")

I have an appl that automates Word Mail Merge.  It was written a long time
ago and it uses a template document that is created and saved with an
attached Header file (csv text file) but no attached data source file. It
attaches to a generated csv Data Source file at run time.  

When I try to send a fax from word 2000, I get an message error occured
during loading.  Any suoggestions.

We have 2 forms, side-by-side in column format.  At the top of each, are
merge fields.  When I use the "Next" field, it goes to the next record on the
page, but then repeats the 2nd record on the next page.  I've tried putting
"NEXT" about everywhere I can think.  Can this be ...

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My mail merge document contains cross referencing to paragraph numbers some
of which are contained in "if statements" and when the document merges my
cross referencing does not update correctly, it simply refers to paragraph
"1" if it was in an if statement.

I am using Word and Excel 2007 and am mail merging numeric values from Excel
into Word.  I would like any zero values to be returned as "-."  I know how
to return the values as "0" or blank, but not as "-".  Does anyone know the
"switch" that gets me to this format??

Como activo o bottão "intercalar para fax" no word 2003, se já tenho o
microsoft fax instalado e configurado e o microsoft outlook instalado?

My fax system, automates MS Word and does a Mail/Merge operation using a Word
document and an Access database. I look for marker characters (?) in the word
document and replace them with merge fields. The program would stop at the
Find function and give the error message: ...