[mso] Re: Problem with Word Mail Merge

Go into your Excel spreadsheet and format the headings differently from the
rest of the data (put them in bold or something) and make sure there are no
blank rows in your data (including between the headings and the data). I've
seen this before with the older versions of Office...usually just adding
some unique formatting to the headings fixes it.

Sorry... I don't reply privately...the purpose of this "group" is for all
members to see the solutions to the problems. 


Linda F. Johnson
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Caroline Jones
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:32 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Problem with Word Mail Merge



I have Word 2000.
I have done many Word mail merges in the past using Excel lists that have
Fields in the first row such as Name, Address etc. before, and never had a
problem

Now, when I get to the step where you Get Data, I insert my excel document,
and ask to show Entire Spreadsheet.

Then I get this error message:
"Word found no merge fields in your main document. Choose Edit Main Document
button to insert merge fields."
So, I click on the Insert Merge Field button, and it says:

Auto Merge Field 1, Auto Merge Field 2 etc. through Auto Merge Field 9

In the past, my fields listed on the first row of the Excel file would be
listed here at the Insert Merge Field button, and now they are not.

I have tried everything I can think of to do a merge with no results.

HELP!!!

If you have a suggestion, please reply to my email
caroline5601@xxxxxxxxx
as I am on digest mode.

Thanks!
Caroline


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