[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would initiate the merge from Access by opening the table or query, right
clicking on the city field and applying a filter and then from the Tools
menu, select Office Links and then Merge it with Microsoft Word.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Mary Fetsch" wrote in message
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I have a user who just upgraded from Word 2000 to Word 2003. She has a
merge
file that uses a query from an Access 2000 database as the data source.
The
data source comes into Word correctly, and she can do her merge. She has
a
problem, though, when she only wants to merge certain records (e.g., only
a
certain city). I

t appears that she now has to open the mail merge recipients screen and
use
the City down arrow to choose the city she wants. The problem occurs when
she opens that screen. Her data source has 919 records, and it seems to
hang
on record 666. She waited 25 minutes for all records to appear on the
screen, but after that, she stopped Word. This has happened more than
once.
Any ideas?