It could be argued that Word is happiest with its merge data stored in a
Word table; but it will quite happily merge from a variety of formats
including Excel, so provided you don't have any odd formatting issues
related to your Excel data source, I would leave it as it stands.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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dp wrote:
Using Word 2003, Windows 2000 Professional. Someone set up a main
document (letter) in Word and a data file in Excel. The data file
changes each time (different notices to different people). Is there
any benefit to having both files in Word instead of one in each - or
isn't there any difference.