Can I mail merge in Word 2007 Home & Student?

[Richard Cooper]

I am experiencing unbelievable inconsistencies when trying a simple mail
merge of address lists to envelopes. I have 2 address lists each containing
about 50 items input from the "Type New List" option in mail merge.

The lists do not appear on the "Browse" command and when located in "My Data
Sources" they appear in machine code. One list somehow seems to have
relocated itself into Excel but when I try to use from this source there is a
message about security issues and it won't open. This is just a sample of
the goings on.

I have concluded that the Home & Student software is simply not able to cope
with mail merge (that would be logical) - have others had this problem and
found a way round it - or do I need to upgrade my software?

 

[Graham Mayor]

There is no reason why the Home & Student version of Word cannot do mail
merge.
What is suspect is your procedure. See
http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm
If you create a list from the mailings tab and save it, it saves
automatically into the My Data Sources folder in the format filename.mdb.
This format can be attached as a data source to a Word 2007 merge.
I cannot imagine how you have got Excel involved in any of this.

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