I have created a menu bar entitled "Form Letters". I have then created a
macro that opens the form letter that I need and it also opens the database
source so I can then select the receipients from the toolbar. If possible,
when I choose the receipient list, the list opens and defaults to "clear
all", selects the "find" button and defaults to a certain field in "this
field", then stops and allows me to enter information into the "find" area.
Has anyone ever done anything like this before?

Any direction is appreciated.
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S

Are you actually performing a mailmerge to multiple recipients or just using
this as a method to populate a document with details of a single recipient.
It that is the case, Mailmerge is not really the right tool for that.
Rather you should use a userform - see the article "How to create a
Userform" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

You haven't said what the data source is, but if it were a table in a Word
document, This routine loads a listbox with client details stored in a table
in a separate document (which makes it easy to maintain with additions,
deletions etc.), that document being saved as Clients.Doc for the following
code.

On the UserForm, have a list box (ListBox1) and a Command Button
(CommandButton1) and use the following code in the UserForm_Initialize() and
the CommandButton1_Click() routines

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim sourcedoc As Document, i As Integer, j As Integer, myitem As Range,
m As Long, n As Long
' Modify the path in the following line so that it matches where you
saved Clients.doc
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
' Open the file containing the client details
Set sourcedoc = Documents.Open(FileName:="e:\worddocs\Clients.doc" )
' Get the number or clients = number of rows in the table of client
details less one
i = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Rows.Count - 1
' Get the number of columns in the table of client details
j = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Columns.Count
' Set the number of columns in the Listbox to match
' the number of columns in the table of client details
ListBox1.ColumnCount = j
' Define an array to be loaded with the client data
Dim MyArray() As Variant
'Load client data into MyArray
ReDim MyArray(i, j)
For n = 0 To j - 1
For m = 0 To i - 1
Set myitem = sourcedoc.Tables(1).Cell(m + 2, n + 1).Range
myitem.End = myitem.End - 1
MyArray(m, n) = myitem.Text
Next m
Next n
' Load data into ListBox1
ListBox1.List() = MyArray
' Close the file containing the client details
sourcedoc.Close SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim i As Integer, Addressee As String
Addressee = ""
For i = 1 To ListBox1.ColumnCount
ListBox1.BoundColumn = i
Addressee = Addressee & ListBox1.Value & vbCr
Next i
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Addressee").Range.Insert After Addressee
UserForm2.Hide
End Sub

The Initialize statement will populate the listbox with the data from the
table and then when a client is selected in from the list and the command
button is clicked, the information for that client will be inserted into a
bookmark in the document. You may want to vary the manner in which it is
inserted to suit our exact requirements, but hopefully this will get you
started.

To make it easy for you, the code has been written so that it will deal with
any number of clients and any number of details about each client. It
assumes that the first row of the table containing the client details is a
header row.

If the data is in an Access database, you could use the following routine to
populate the listbox

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
Dim NoOfRecords As Long
' Open the database
Set db = OpenDatabase("D:\Access\ResidencesXP.mdb")
' Retrieve the recordset
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT * FROM Owners")
' Determine the number of retrieved records
With rs
.MoveLast
NoOfRecords = .RecordCount
.MoveFirst
End With
' Set the number of Columns = number of Fields in recordset
ListBox1.ColumnCount = rs.Fields.Count
' Load the ListBox with the retrieved records
ListBox1.Column = rs.GetRows(NoOfRecords)
' Cleanup
rs.Close
db.Close
Set rs = Nothing
Set db = Nothing
End Sub


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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Sharon" wrote in message
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I have created a menu bar entitled "Form Letters". I have then created a
macro that opens the form letter that I need and it also opens the
database
source so I can then select the receipients from the toolbar. If
possible,
when I choose the receipient list, the list opens and defaults to "clear
all", selects the "find" button and defaults to a certain field in "this
field", then stops and allows me to enter information into the "find"
area.
Has anyone ever done anything like this before?

Any direction is appreciated.
--
S