Hi ?B?Q2Fzcw==?=,

The report was created with Office XP on Windows XP system, the same programs
I am using to open and read it. It is an old template that has been used for
years here to submit this report and was originally created in Office 97.

I tried the copy and paste as you suggested and I did not get the mail merge
task pane in the new document.

OK, then it's pretty clear that the behavior is probably a structural problem in
the old Word97 document. If the copy/paste routine hasn't solved your problem
(because you need the old file and can't make a new one) you can try saving as a
webpage, closing, opening the web page, then saving again as a Word document.
That might shake out the dross, but no guarantees.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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