[Bill-at-JSC]

I supppose that I am not knowledgeable enough to recognize if this has been
addressed before, so I am asking because this is creating serious problems
for me.

AT some point in the last several months an update to my Office 2003 has
been installed that has resulted in an inability to correctly make changes
in existing merge criteris. Specifically, putting in a change results in
nearly every filtering criteria becoming a two-part OR, with the addition of
an unwanted IF about the file dbeing empty/nulll OR my desired inclusion
criteria. We have lots of empty fields all over lots of Excel databases that
get used in over 100 pre-reports, and all of the records with any of the
fields empty get selected because of this unwanted-but-cannot-be-removed OR
that has begun being added.

I am not a knowledgeable user. I pretty much only know how to maintain and
make minor changes to he existing reports. And I cannot even do that because
some update has changed the way things work such that what I ask for gets
changed to be what I definitely don't want.

How has it come about that Mail Merge is deciding -- incorrectly -- for me
that what I really want is to search for empty cells as well as the cells
containing the values we want? And what can I do to stop it?

If this has been answered already somwhere, please accept my apology for my
ignorance that hasn't recognized it, and explain it more simply so that I'll
get it this time.

Thanx, folks...BillG