First time using mail merge

[Jim]

I am trying to create mailing labels using an Excel
spreadsheet as a source. When I open a new word document
and go to the tools menu there is no mail merge command.
The is a merge documents command but it doesn't seem to
work they way the mail merge help file says it should. Am
i missing the mail merge command? If so, why?

Jim

 

[Graham Mayor]

You have no mentioned which Word version you are using. For Word 2002 see
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

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[Jim]

I'm using Word 2000.

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You have no mentioned which Word version you are using. For Word 2002 see
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/mail_merge_labels_with_wo rd_xp.htm

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[Graham Mayor]

The article may prove useful anyway - but it seems that you have simply lost
a menu command. You should be able to add it back from tools > customize >
commands > all commands > mail merge helper - drag it to the menu. This is
actually described in the link for Word 2002.

If this fails, then the issue is that of a registry corruption -

See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm
or
http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm

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[jim]

Graham,

it is word 2002. I cannot get to your web site. I get a
web site not found message.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

The page is there, but you may need to reconstruct the URL if it has wrapped
in your newsreader (or whatever you are using to read the message). Or if
you retyped the URL, you may have used spaces between mail, merge, labels
etc. when you need to use underscores.

Here's the URL again:

http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm