Gord I followed the procedures you gave in the URL but my Word program could
not open the Excel file. What did I do wrong. I set the Excel file up as text
as you said and then pasted data from a Works data base into it. Is that my
problem? Am i going to have to retype the whole thing?
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thriftyjohn


"Gord Dibben" wrote:

For help on Word mail merge using Excel as the data source.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMe...AMailMerge.htm

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMe...DataSource.htm

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:25:12 -0700, straitfan
wrote:

We have an excel spreadsheet with names and addresses in columns. We would
like to manipulate this data (without having to retype it) in a Word document
for a class reunion project to read like this:
Jane Doe
xxx street
xxx city, state, zip
Comment line: Jane has been a teacher for........

Any ideas?