See the article "Creating a Mail Merge Data Source" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMe...DataSource.htm

and "How to create a Mail Merge" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMe...AMailMerge.htm


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Joyce3631" wrote in message
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I am trying to mail merge but every time I go to get data and identify
where
the file name, I get a message saying 'Word could not parse your query
options into a valid SQL string'. This is driving me loopy please can you
help?