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You can call it anything that you like as long as you use the same field
name in both the datasource and the mail merge main document.

There are however some naming conventions that need to be followed.

See the article "Creating a Mail Merge Data Source" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMe...DataSource.htm


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