The Mail Merge Recipients dialog is very slow if you have a large database.
Moreover, a data source with more than 286 fields will crash Word when you
try to display them in this dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"brentlight" wrote in message
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I am running Office XP, and I am attempting to do a mail merge in
Microsoft
Word to print labels from a database that contains nearly 8000 entries. I
am
able to get as far as the "mail merge recipients" dialog box, but when I
click any of the buttons at the top of the list in order to sort the
recipients, the program freezes. I have tried anything I can think of.
Any
help is greatly appreciated.