I am running Macintosh OS 10.2 and using word and excel for OSX. I want
to do a merge with an excel worksheet as my data source. It will only
let meuse 63 different data fields. How can I fix it so it will see
more. I
know this is possible and it has something to do with the merge helper
getting involved and coverting my excel file. When the merge file
accesses the excel file,it says that it is converting the file. I tried
checking the "confirm conversion before opening" preference, but this
has not helped. How can I stop word from converting my excel file?

(I have crossposted on microsoft.public.mac.word but not received a
response)

Thanks!

Andrew