[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It is not actually Excel that you should be looking for, but the spreadsheet
(.xls file) that you created in Excel to be the source of the data for the
mail merge.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Louise" wrote in message
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Hi. I am having trouble using mail merge. I wish to use excel as my data
source document however when I get to the "select recipients" stage excel
is
not there and when I click "Browse" I don't seem to be able to find excel.
Am
I doing something wrong or is there an easier way to do this. I am using
Windows XP. Any help on this issue is much appreciated. Cheers.