I am trying to do a mail merge.  On my machine when I select open data
source, I get the option of choosing DDE, etc.    When I choose this
option, it allows me to have 2 characters past the decimal point,
which is what I want.

I have a field in my database that stores an outline of topics covered in a
course. The data is made up of headings and text.
In my Word document I've created a new style called "heading3". Is there
anyway to mark up the entries in the database field so that Word will know to

I designed a database to hold job descriptions. I set up a mailmerge so that
each individual job description can printed.
Most of the documents are more than one page. If I were to mail merge all
the documents it would come out at "Page X of 70".

I created a label merge yesterday and the template is now gone (the outlines
for where the label is on the page).  I tried to create a new one today and
it still is not showing the outlines for the labels.  The tabs are still set
up, but I can't see if my text is fitting into the ...

New to Office 2007.  Is it possible to establish the order in which "next
record" will print?  I want it to print in two columns, first down the left
column and then across and down the right column.

How do I get rid of the settings?
thanks

I use Access 2002 (and Word 2002).  There are approximately 20 users on a
network (in my unit) that access a db on the network.  If i split the db then
the tables are on the network and the applications, queries etc are deployed
to each of the users' workstations.  These users ...

In this office we have documents that take .dat files created from our Oracle
database, and use them for mail merge documents.  Recently the size of the
fields has been increased and the merge documents don't fit some of the
fields anymore.  I am wondering if there is any way, ...

How do I set up a new MailMerge document?
I have the main document (.doc) and the date source (.xls).
When I click into Tools, then, Letters and Mailings, then into Mail Merge,
the Open Date Source or Create Merge document do not appear. Before, they

Does any version of Word allow page definitions to be defined with printer
tray assignments so a multi page merged document will pull the appropriate
paper for each page?
For example, I have a 3 page letter and need to print page 1 on letterhead

I'm trying to merge a number of unique "tif" images and corresponding
records from an Access database into a mail merge document.. The
images to the corresponding "tifs" are stored on a network drive. The
"tif's" are all different and uniquly named.  The full paths are

I have 30 or so appointments that I have to send individual letters out for.  
Each appointment is on one of three days at 30 minute intervals beginning at
9:30am.  How do I set up the initial appointment time and get each following
time to fall in after 30 minutes without ...

I often use the mail merge to Outlook functionality at work - but it would be
so useful to be able to add a CC recipient as well.

Please forgive me, but I'm new to using Mail Merge.
I was wondering if it is possible to use more than one data source in
a single document. For instance an envelope. I want to pull the
information for the recipients from one sql server table, and the

Using MS ACCESS 2002 query as a record source for merge. My merge document
freezes up at specific record (89 inmy query) yet the query generated 600
records.  Is there a limit to the number of records word will merge to?  Or
is there someother reason for the merge to freeze or ...