and I get an error (of course with
no error message this time since I have downloaded everything!)

OK, so there is no error message, but is there anything that tells you what
kind of error is occuring? What do you actually see?

As an immediate workaround, if you do not have more than around 63 columns
in your Excel sheet, maybe you could try:
a. in Excel, select your sheet and Edit|Copy
b. in Word, create a new blank document, then use Edit|Paste to paste the
contents of the Excel sheet. Save the document and close it
c. use that document as the data source for your merge

Peter Jamieson
"Ms Bay" wrote in message
...
Hi
I am using Office 2000 Premium and I can't get the mail merge to work. I
have about 50 addresses that I am trying to use from an Excel spreadsheet
and
merge with a return address in Word. I have just downloaded every one of
the
latest updates and it still won't work (the error messaging I was getting
at
first said this is what I needed to do). When I do the Get Data Source
and
click on my file the whole box goes white and I get an error (of course
with
no error message this time since I have downloaded everything!) Can
anyone
help me? I am really getting flustered with this now.
--
Ms Bay