I am doing a mail merge in Word, and the return address does not completely
print every few envelopes.  It will start fine, but then the address just
jumps up and I end up missing the first couple of letters on every line.

Hi there,
I'm merging from an Excel data source into Word and my merged dates are
coming out in american format (mm dd yyyy) I prefer the UK format of dd mm
yyyy, any idea how I can change this in the merged document.  (The date in

Is there an alternative to mailmerge, such as templates for building up
pages manually for L7163 address labels (7 rows of 2 labels)
I ask this because I am migrating from Office 2000 to 2003 and am
getting the message running an SQL statement.  I know there's a

I am doing a lable merge using Word 2007 - have followed all the relevant
steps, but for some reason when I click the 'Update Labels' button it doesn't
copy the information properly - it misses out two labels leaving them blank.
I have tried the mail merge with different data and ...

I have a list of four contractors (in Word 2003) and use this to populate a
Main document and merge to four letters.
What I would also like to do is a 'cc' to a client, with the contractors
listed at the top of the letter - rather than sending copies of individual

I'm trying to merge a text file into a Word document and am getting the
error message "Word couldn't open because it didn't contain a valid database.
The text file is comma delimited.  Any ideas what could be causing this?

Is there a way that I can print a regular document (i.e. a sign-in sheet) and
have it print for different dates automatically?

When I go back to open a merged document, I want to see the date it was
actually merged, not the current date or the date the main document was
created.  In other words, if I 'Merge to a new Document' I want a date field
that gives the resulting document the 'date of merging', ...

Hi,  I'm trying to create name badges with data from Excel 2003.  I'm using
Avery 5390 8 up name badges.
I want the labels to look like this:
_____________________

I have created a database to do mailings and envelopes.  My boss would also
like a one or two page list showing all the folks the letter was sent to,
along with some other information from the database.  I created a word
document to put this in.  I use the directory function to ...

We are using Word 2003 and have a simple merge to do with a form letter.  We
are addressing the letters to FirstName Middle Initial LastName but if there
is no middle initial we just want the first name and the last name.  What's
happening is that we're getting two spaces after ...

I am trying to figure out how to merge the names, company names, addresses,
from Excel 2007 to labels in word 2007

I am trying to import the names/addresses from a Quickbooks database into
Word so taht I can then print them off on a DL envelope and I cannot seem to
do this - can anyone help me please? Thanks!

My database is in Excel and I have dates, percentages and currency
auto-formated in there. When I use mailmerge Word 2007 ignores all that
formating making my documets a mess. If I use Word 97 it keeps all the
formatting intact but that then stops Word 2007 from working. If ...

I use Doug Robbins' MMtoDocsRev22.dot for merging files with Word and Excel
(Óffice XP). Works excellent, but is saves all the new documents in "standard
view". i would like then to be saved in "print view".
What do I have to change and where do I have to change the template to ...