does anyone have an answer for me? My computer crashed and i had only printed
a portion of my merged document ( total 3,000 letters!) and i want to
continue to print from where the printing left off.  When I go to print and I
put in the sections--it "goes to the printer" but ...

The business I work for has recently upgraded from Windows 2000 to XP and
Office 2000 to 2003. All the mail merge documents we have were created using
Office 2000.
Since the upgrade we are having major problems as follows:

Using Word 2002, Excel 2002:
Excel is the external data source
Where a date field is blank, the merge field returns the current date. I've
tried to eliminate with

I am running a mail merge to a new document.  The template is one
page, and I have some code to pull each page from the merged document
and save it as its own new file.  So, right now, it ends up being
MergeResult1.doc, MergeResult2.doc, MergeResult3.doc, etc...  What I

I am using an existing Microsoft Excel 2003 speadsheet to create a mail merge
in Word. In the Address Block and Greeting Line, there are several spaces
between the First Name and Last Name of the recipients.  How can I correct
this?

I have merged about 20 letters into a single document and saved it.  But, I
need to save each letter to the persons efile that belongs to them.  (ie:  
letter addressed to Jane Smith needs to be saved in Jane Smith's folder on my
C drive.)  Can you even do that?

I have this text from a site:
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When Word sees a relative filepath in a document, instead of checking the
filepath against the filepath of the document, Word uses the currently active

I am using Word 2007 with XP SP2.  I have a mailmerge document which inserts
data correctly into a table but I wanted to format it conditional upon one of
the field values, ie for every record if the field Probationer is true, I
want the text to be green or even the cell ...

How would I set options for the Find in Field tool in the Mail Merge toolbar.
Currently when I do a search for say "BPM 656" th e tool "finds" and
displays the first occurence of BPM.  I would prefer the tool button to
display a result that matched the entire string,i.e. BPM 656 ...

While completing a mail merge in Word, I edited a few fields in the
data base (an XLS file). Upon closing Word, I was asked if I wanted to
save the changes to the data base. Of course I said yes. All
subsequent attempts to open that XLS file have been blocked with the

Word 2003 Professional
I have a document that uses check boxes.  I needed to set it up for mail
merge and now the check boxes no longer work and I cannot use Protect
Document.

I have used the Outlook 2003 contacts and/or address book entries to address
and then print individual envelopes in Word 2003 via "Tools>Letters and
Mailings>Envelopes and Labels..." for years.  Just recently this technique
fails to actually insert the desired address into an ...

Greetings --
I am setting up a Word document to import A LOT of information from an Excel
spreadsheet.  Basically, the spreadsheet captures a couple hundred pieces of
info and translates them into text.  Each datapoint ranges from a couple of

I'm losing text from the end of a field in my Word merge from my Excel file.
It seems to let me have about 48 or so words and then the rest is gone.

(Word 2003 on Windows XP)  If you have many sections, all with different
first page, different odd and even, you can have three headers and three
footers to update for each section whenever you change a document property
(e.g. security classification) that is referenced in all of ...