I have merged a word document with an excel database. However, when i print
the merged fields are being printed/displayed with a 'grey' background.
Can anyone help

I am trying to complete a merge for price tags.   The exel spread sheet has
1.Style_Name, 2. Style_Number, 3. Price, 4. Manufacture.   When I merge the
records the style_Number field is sometimes blank (only on the data that
contains pure #'s with no letters).

I understand that I can use this function to check a field in my merge data,
and insert one or another text string into my Word document.   What I'd like
to do is use a field in my merge data to direct which of two merge fields to
print.   Is there a way to implement something ...

I am trying to print a list of clients.  When my reports print I lose one
client when the report pages to a new page.  I tried inserting a page break
on the document but I still lose a client and have a blank page between the
report pages.  (My merge data is in excel format)  Any ...

Using switches to format mergefields.  Is there a way to not show a zero in a
percentage field?  Office Manager would like to show 13.3% ; in the case of
07.3% not have the 0 show.

My problem is similar to marti's. I'm working with Excel 2003 and Word 2003,
merging into labels. Out of 2000 records, only 15 Zip Codes are being merged.
Data appears in Excel spreadsheet but is not appearing in Mail Merge
Receipients window. What should I do?

Hi I want to be able to mail merge in word 2007 and include a picture.
Thanks for any help

I am interested in sending out newsletters to customers.  I want to print the
newsletters, and then trifold them.  I want to print the addresses directly
onto the newsletters to cut costs in labels and envelopes.  What would be the
most efficient way of doing this?

When I attempt to perform a particular merge, I get a dialog "Microsoft
Office Word" dialog that says
"Opening this document will run the following SQL command ... Data from your
database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue?"

I have a mail merge with Prefix, FirstName, Surname, etc.  
For various reasons when sending out mail some people should only have their
Prefix and Surname shown.  I need to have their FirstName in the merge as I
use it for a large amount of other documents otherwise I would ...

Have just upgraded to Office 2007 and for some reason when I print envelopes
with a return address default, the address is not printing on the envelope.
Is this a bug in the new version?

A client has sent me a manual that contains merged data ('Mergefields'), and
for some reason I cannot process the manual through my translation software.
I think the problem is that the mergefields are left as coded fields in the
Word doc.

I am manipulating Word files from within an Access application (Office 2003).
I am opening Word, manipulating a document, saving it, opening another
document, manipulating, etc.  After running into a bug, I stopped the
execution of the Access application but my Word instance is ...

I have tried the steps outlined in the following link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
but I must be doing something wrong because all I get is the X where

The field in my Access database is Birth.
The data in the field appears as ex. 10/2/1964 but when printed on a report
it should appear as 10/2.
I've tried the following: