[Barnie M]

I've created a Word 2003 letter and envelope doc in word to read from an
Excel 2003 data source. I have all the proper labels at the top of each
column (no special characters or spaces). When I tell Word that the data
source is an Excel spreadsheet, and click ok; it keeps coming back to the
same dialog box. If I click cancel it gives me an error message "this
operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures".
This second problem is that when I can get connected to the database and try
to select my merge receipents it says that "the connection to the receipent's
list has been lost. Check that the file has not been moved or deleted and
that the network location is accessible". Can anyone tell me, what I'm doing
wrong or is there some setting on my computer or network server that needs to
be changed?