[SusanG]

I'm having the same problem in XP with Excel 2007 and Word 2007 and I've
never had this problem before, ever, in years of doing merges. It's with the
directory choice, I have no extra Next Record fields, although I do have the
one required Next Record field. I used both ODBC Excel datasource and just
navigated to the Excel file, as in Select Recipients, both methods that
worked previously.
With Select Recipients, my preview is correct, but the Output file skips all
the even records. With ODBC datasource, the preview is correct, but the
Output file skips all the even records (starts with row 2).
This is not a problem of inexperience with merges, IMO, I've done hundreds
and hundreds.
Susan