[Graham Mayor]

In that case you should find
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm useful.

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turtle-1975 wrote:
Hi,

Thanks! That works wonderfully. In answer to your question, I just
find it easier to use the wizard... and I never noticed that there is
an 'edit recipient list' type option on the toolbar (don't know how I
missed it!). Perhaps I'll be adventurous and start using the toolbar
instead since I have it there all the time anyway.

Heather



"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

You can do it by creating an AutoOpen macro in your Normal.dot, e.g.

Sub Autoopen()

Application.TaskPanes(wdTaskPaneMailMerge).Visible = True

End Sub

(See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DocumentEvents.htm for
furthe info. about "Auto" macros and and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm if you're
unfamiliar with VBA macros)

Personally, I prefer the toolbar which does /most/ of what
mailmergers need and occupies a lot less space, so I'm interested to
know whether you simply prefer the wizard or have to use it, e.g.
because a. you want to connect to an Outlook contacts folder within
Word b. you use merges that use Word's MailMerge events (one of
which only works properly if you start the merge from the wizard)
c. someone has customised your wizard
d. some other reason

Peter Jamieson
"turtle-1975" wrote in message
...
Thanks, I have the toolbar up already, what I want is the wizard
which comes
up down the right hand side to come up automatically...

Heather


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

From the View menu, select Toolbars and then check the Mail Merge
item. That will cause the Mail Merge toolbar to be displayed and
it contains buttons for all of the operations required for
mailmerge.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"turtle-1975" wrote in
message ...
Nearly every document I use at work is a mailmerge. Is there a
way to start
Word with the mail merge wizard open? I tried recording a macro
so I can
just
hit the macro button every time I start up word (Macro doesn't
seem to record
the menu selections though). That is, I don't want to click on
tools, then
letters and mailings, then mail merge every time I open a mail
merge document.

Thanks.
Heather