Graham,

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I did re-attach. After an hour or so of
different solutions, I found that I had changed a field name in Access. Even
though, the corresponding Word field was also corrected, the database
apparently corrupted. I checked the field properties in Access to see if
something else was affected. No luck. Once I recreated the Recipient List
in Word using the "exact" field names (over 40 fields) in the document and
reattached, the problem was solved.

It is important to be able to open the Access File since the client (Law
Firm) will be importing records from a previous merge file that was used with
WordPerfect into the new Access database.

Again, your reply was appreciated.

Jim

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

There does not appear to be anything in the editing of the data file in
Access that would prevent the file from being used with Word's merge tools.
Did you re-attach the data after editing it in Access?

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Jim Laumann wrote:
I successfully created a mail merge in Word 2003 and the 'EDIT'
button in the MAIL MERGE RECIPIENTS dialog box allowed me to edit and
customize the fields. I then opened the Address List file with the
mdb extension in Access 2003. Now I can no longer use the EDIT button
to add recipients.

Thanks in advance for any assistance. Jim