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Default Mail merge using Word and Excel

Which version of Word/Excel?

Any sorts/filters applied?

Any hidden rows? (It doesn't sound like it)

Any double-quote characters in the row immediately before?

Try changing the way that Word connects to the data source (depends on the
version, but in Word 2002/2003 check Word Tools|Options General|COnfirm
conversions at open, go through the connection process again. The options
are DDE (requires Excel and only "sees" the first sheet in the workbook),
the default in Word 2000, ODBC, and OLE DB (the default in Word 2002
onwards, and not available before that). You may also see a "via Converter"
option.

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"MinMar" wrote in message
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The mail merge document has been created in Word. For some reason it only
pulled 214 records from the Excel database. Thinking it was a problem
with
the data, I went in and removed several records. When I tried again, the
merge again stopped at record 214 (even though it was a new name for that
entry.)

I am not detecting any gaps (empty columns or rows) that would make the
merge think it had reached the end of the data. Any other factors that
could
fool the program in that way?

Your help is appreciated!

M~