I've created a Word template that connects to my Outlook contacts. This
allows me to create letters to my customers quickly.

The final step of the merge process allows me to either print or edit the
merged letters individually. Once the merged document is saved and re-opened
it asks me if it's okay to connect to my contacts database. Why would a
merged document want to reconnect to the database? How I can I permanently
remove this connection once a letter is created?

Please help.

Are you actually executing the merge to a new document?

If you are, and this thing is still happening, I guess it is because when
you open the document, a reference to the template is created and it is that
reference that is causing the message to appear. You could overcome this by
creating an Autoopen macro in the template with the following code in it:

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = wdNotAMergeDocument

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I've created a Word template that connects to my Outlook contacts. This
allows me to create letters to my customers quickly.

The final step of the merge process allows me to either print or edit the
merged letters individually. Once the merged document is saved and
re-opened
it asks me if it's okay to connect to my contacts database. Why would a
merged document want to reconnect to the database? How I can I permanently
remove this connection once a letter is created?

Please help.