Word 2003 Mail Merge

[salgud]

I've done many mail merges in Word over the years and they worked fine.
Now, I'm trying to do a mail merge using Word 03 and can't get it to work
at all. I've even gone back to setting up a simple test one with one field
and one data set to merge, but it always goes to the "fail" mode and won't
pick up the one data set, even though it's checked and highlighted in the
setup screen. So I'm gathering there's some little "trick" that makes this
work? If anyone knows what it is, I'd really appreciate the help.

TIA

 

[salgud]

I've done many mail merges in Word over the years and they worked fine.
Now, I'm trying to do a mail merge using Word 03 and can't get it to work
at all. I've even gone back to setting up a simple test one with one field
and one data set to merge, but it always goes to the "fail" mode and won't
pick up the one data set, even though it's checked and highlighted in the
setup screen. So I'm gathering there's some little "trick" that makes this
work? If anyone knows what it is, I'd really appreciate the help.

TIA

Figured it out! You have to insert "<<Address Block>>, then go to "Other
items" and insert the correct field, like "Name", then go back and erase
out where it put "<<Address Block>> into the letter. Then it will put the
name in!

Like all M$ software, there's always some cute undocumented trick to make
it work! Don't ya just luv 'em?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I've never experienced that in Word 2003. I never use the AddressBlock. But
then I don't use the Mail Merge Wizard, either.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org