I don't know how to make Outlook accept the two email addresses, but what I would do is make a copy of the table in Access, just for this mail merge...and use an Append Query to pull all the records from the original table that have something in the second email address field and append them to the new copy of the table. Then you will have one record for every parent. Wouldn't that work? Can't you just use this separate table JUST for the mail merges? If not, you'll have to wait for someone else who may have more experience with this...remember it's a holiday weekend in the US so many people aren't sitting at their computers reading email. Any yes, Microsoft has help phone numbers (but they are not free and I don't know what they are)....and I'm sure they are closed for the holiday too. You might want to try the posting this question to the Microsoft newsgroups tho....they are located here: http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp? Good luck. Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cherie Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:53 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: E-mail merge using Access and Word Does anyone know where I can go to get this question answered? Does Microsoft have a hot line? help ..please C It was 5/29/2004 when Cherie mentioned: ----------------------Begin Quote------------------------ >I am the administrator of an email list at a middle school. > >We can not use an online mail manager because we can only sub people who >have students in the school..therefore I have a list of students that are >pulled in from the county records into excel, then Access. > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************