<<Now I have to figure out why I have to allow permission for the access to the addresses and the web. It may be a setting in my firewall that needs a permission change.>> Nope..that's Outlook doing that and there's no way to turn it off...but there's a great little program called clickYes that eliminates the need for you to click yes a million times...I use it all the time when I do mail merges from Word to my Outlook contacts...you can download it for free here: http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/ 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 Karen Lubrecht Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:56 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Outlook - mail merge problem in email Thanks! For some reason, works if I begin in Word instead of Outlook! It still only wants to print when I begin in Outlook. You'd think it would be the other way around. As long as it works from one direction! Now I have to figure out why I have to allow permission for the access to the addresses and the web. It may be a setting in my firewall that needs a permission change. Linda, thanks for the heads up about the distribution folder. Ian, thanks for the additional tip for adding personalized paragraphs by way of excel cells. What a wonderfully clever idea! Karen ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************