Vista mail merge using data from office 2007

[vanclan]

I went from 2007 to vista and simply transferred all the data. I am now
wanting to do a mail merge (the source doc created in 2007) and am having
difficulty. I can call up the source file when I use the mail merge wizard
and see the info, but it appears to be all one "block" rather than in the
appropriate fields. It is completely inaccessible and doesn't allow me to
edit. For example, if I search by a name it will pull up the entire entry
along with other seemingly random text (&,> etc...). If I try to move to the
next step, no information is found there. Can someone help? I'm not very
good with computers and don't know the lingo at all, but I have 5 kiddos and
the idea of writing out 300 addresses by hand is a strong motivation to
figure this out!

 

[macropod]

Hi vanclan,

I went from 2007 to vista

Vista is an Operating System, whereas I believe '2007' refers to Office 2007. There is no real connection between the two (ie you
can't 'go' from one to the other).

Perhaps you could post back, saying what application you're using for the mailmerge (eg Word 2007) and what application created the
data source for it and the format the data are stored in.