[skippercollector]

I noticed that no one answered my questions. I also researched my questions myself in some other websites, to no avail. Which leads me to believe that there aren't any answers!
Anyway, my problem isn't with the conversion from the list to creating envelopes or letters, although this new version has more steps. I've learned to deal with the additional steps. It's the list itself that's the problem.
I tried creating my first mail merge today in Excel, and it worked! And the chart is like the charts in the previous version of Word. So I will use Excel from now on, and will never create a mail merge in Word 97-2003 again.