mail merge VERY slow

[G. Leavitt]

I have a user who was just upgraded from office 200 to office 2003. He
routinely runs mail merge for upwards of 1,000 - 30,000 labels at a time.
Now that he is on office 2003 mail merge runs extremely slow. Has anyone
ever seen this before? Maybe a fix? Thanks a ton.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have a user who was just upgraded from office 200 to office 2003. He
routinely runs mail merge for upwards of 1,000 - 30,000 labels at a time.
Now that he is on office 2003 mail merge runs extremely slow. Has anyone
ever seen this before?

It's generally a problem, yes. I take it these aren't existing mail merge
documents already connected to a data source, but documents that where the
link to the data source has been created in Word 2003?

There's a section on mail merge in Word 2002/2003 on my website that
discusses the new connection method, and how you can get back to the old one.
You might give that a try.

If you want to discuss this further, we do need to know which application
provides the data (like Excel, Access...)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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