I supppose that I am not knowledgeable enough to recognize if this has been
addressed before, so I am asking because this is creating serious problems
for me.
AT some point in the last several months an update to my Office 2003 has

For mail merge, after I select my "existing list", which is an Excel
document, the Select Table options are blank. My contact, address, city etc
does not appear in this box. It is blank and it says "Word was unable to open
the data source."

I have included a 'note' field in my mail merge and it appears to have <div>
either side of it - the other fields do not have this.  How can I remove this
from my 'note' field?

tring to print out business cards, I'm clueless

In prior versions of MS Word I could click on a Fill-in Field and hit F9 and
a box would pop up to enter my information in.  That no longer works.  Is
there a different method used in Office 2007 to get that to work?

Using 2007 versions, Vista OS.
In Excel, I have a date column labeled DOB_1 in my database, and that column
is formatted to display 'mmm dd, yyyy'.  So, an entry of 9/5/2005 displays as
'Sep 05, 2005'.

When I merge my database (using Excel) the money appears as text.  How do I
get the money to appear with the money sign?

How can I use the SkipIf feature to select only the first occurance of a
value when there are several records with the same value
something like SKIPIF bar_code = bar_code
records look like

I currently have a mail merge that prints letters from SQL Server.. If a
fields value is greater than 1, I would like to print a pdf behind that
letter. The fields value will determine how many pdfs will be printed behind
the letter.

I have recently upgraded computers and have Word 2007 and Outlook 2007. I
have the document created, and gone through all the merge steps (I use merge
a lot). The emails not only never get to Outlook, my Word "freezes" and shuts
down. Suggestions?

This seems really simple but I can't figure out what I'm missing. I want to
create a mail merge document that can be used by our adminitrative team to
send out acknowledgements. Tehy will get an excel list of names once a week.
I want to jsut create the word doc with the fields ...

I have word 2007 and have tried to open up the "Review" tab and "Protect
Document" icon.  However when I do that the Formatting and Editing
Restrictions buttons are greyed out and I cannot check them.

I have an Excel 2003 "database" of names, addresses etc.  where one of the
fields is House Number.
When I use this data to create address labels in Word 2003 via Mail Merge
everything is OK apart from those cells where the House Number also contains

I've got a mail merge completed. When I go to edit the location of some of
the labels Word pushes them back up to the top of the sheet. I can't have
this happen. How do I keep them back down. This was never a problem in '03.
Thoughts Suggestions

I'm trying to print out the entire data source list onto one page so that I
can use this as a checklist when they respond.