Word mail merge

[Sean]

when choosing recipients in merge table (Access) is it
possible to have data pre-sorted rather than having to
sort records every time a merge document is opened. For
some reason the data is not returned in the order that it
appears in the database.

Also every time I open document I'm prompted to find data
source. Is it possible to link to an Access datasource
on a network without having to do this everytime?

Thanks