I now have Office Pro 2003. Before I had Office 97, and I developed some
mail merge procedures producing confirmation letters which required 38 data
elements. Both my main and data files were .doc files. These do work with
Office Pro 2003. But now I find when I go to create a new mail merge, the
data portion of the mail merge directs me to a New Address List Panel which
creates a .mdb file. The disadvantage of this is that I must switch from
Word to Access to edit my data which is inconvenient. Is there some way I
can generate the data portion of the mail merge as a .doc file like I used to
do it?