word mail merge from excel
 

I have an excel workbook with information that acts as a header source for
word mail merge documents. In excel I am able to open word and the mail merge
document that I want.
But... when I ask word (still through excel) to open the workbook an attach
it as the header, it takes about 2 minutes to process the request.
Also word wants to open another copy of excel when one is already running.
Any suggestions
Thanks for taking a look at this
Alfred