Everyone waits for the last minute & this is no exception. A group that I do volunteer help for cannot figure out how to do labeling when the list is in Excel. I remembered it being really easy so I tried to see if I could do it. I reach a certain point & keep getting this error "word could not re-establish a DDE connection to excel to complete the current task". This is what I did to get this error: open new word document > tools > mail merge > create > mailing labels > new document type > get data > open data source > desk top (list in folder on desktop) > file of type...all > clicked on the list. That's it, I can't get past that error message. Please help..label badly needed. Thanks, Jan ************************************************************* 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?Subject=unsubscribe 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 *************************************************************