[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

One thing that you could do is use the data source with a Directory type
mailmerge main document in which you set up the merge fields in the cells of
a one row table. When you execute that merge to a new document, that
document will contain a row of data for each record in the data source. You
can then insert a row at the top of that table into which you insert the
names of the merge fields and then use the TableSort facility in Word to
get it into the order that you want.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Bec" wrote in message
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Currently using Word 2002 I created my mail merge and data source. For
some
reason it keeps moving my current recipients that I have finished entering
to
the beginning of the recipient list. My recipient was up to 4000 so I
created
a new one it was working fine then started to do this. I have sorted the
records so the appear how and where I want. But as soon as I go out of the
file and then back in again it's all jumbled. Please HELP!!!