How Do You Mail Merging Hyperlinks

[Jeremy Newkirk]

I am using Windows XP with Word 2002.

I have an excel spreadsheet that I'm using as the source for my mail merge.
One of the columns has the actual HTML text for a hyperlink. The text comes
through fine, but when I save the document as an html file, the text is
replaced as shown below:

Here's the text in the word document before saving it as html:

<a href="1_Alameda/1_Alameda_tn.html" target="_blank"><img
src="1_Alameda/1_Alameda_01tn.jpg" width = "150" height="109"
alt="1_Alameda" border="0"></a>

Here's what ends up in the html file:

&lt;a href=&quot;1_Alameda/1_Alameda_tn.html&quot;
target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img
src=&quot;1_Alameda/1_Alameda_01tn.jpg&quot; width = &quot;150&quot;
height=&quot;109&quot; alt=&quot;1_Alameda&quot;
border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

As you can see, it's taking the text as a literal and replacing all the
special characters with there equivalent html (e.g., "<" becomes "&lt;").

Is there a way to stop it from translating just this one area of the mail
merge?