There is a great lag in opening these documents. Read the
information below.

This is opening another spreadsheet and closing the
current one that will allow me to run the 2nd macro.

Sub Rectangle1_Click()
Workbooks.Open ("H:\Created Projects\Excel\xxxxx\To get
doc open.xls")
Workbooks("xxxxx.xls").Activate
ActiveWorkbook.Close (Yes)
End Sub


This is where it's taking a long time to open the word
doc. (that's merged) and the excel spreadsheet with the
merged data.

Sub Open_RetentionDoc()
Dim appWD As Object
Dim wdDoc As Document
Set appWD = CreateObject("Word.Application")
appWD.Visible = True
appWD.ChangeFileOpenDirectory ActiveWorkbook.Path
appWD.Documents.Open Filename:="H:\Created
Projects\Word\xxxxx\xxxxx Project\letters\xxxxx Letter.doc"
Set wdDoc = appWD.ActiveDocument
ActiveWorkbook.Close (No)
End Sub

This is the macro that sends the merged information to a
new document and closes the mail merged doc. How can I
keep the excel spreadsheet open at this point? When I
have the merged doc. to close it automatically closes the
spreadsheet, too.

docname = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.DataFields
("Name").Value

x = ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.DataFields
("Records").Value
With ActiveDocument.MailMerge
.Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
.SuppressBlankLines = True
With .DataSource
.FirstRecord =
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord
.LastRecord =
ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ActiveRecord
End With
.Execute Pause:=False
End With


Documents("xxxxx Letter.doc").Close (Yes)
ActiveDocument.Close (Yes)
Application.Quit
End Sub