That is one that I would have to see to believe. If you want to send me a
copy of the mailmerge main document and of the data source, I will take a
look to see if I can tell what is going wrong.

You don't happen to have a Next Record field in there somewhere that is
causing the merge to jump prematurely to the next record do you?

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"sbrimley" wrote in message
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I am merging information from Excel to Word. The data is either a P (pass)
M
(monitor) or a R (Referral). This represents what a child received in a
particular developmental area we screen for. We are trying to merge the
information into a report for each child and even though the cell in Excel
states a P (pass) for Reading, in the merged Word report it is being
displayed as a R (Referral). When I merged the data into the report all
R's
become P's and all P's become R's. Any suggestions??

I am using Word & Excel 2003. I realize they changed the way the two
applications communicate with each other in regards to merged data. And I
have tried reverting back to DDE and that has not worked. I have also
looked
at the following article and only understand a little bit of what it is
saying and still do not know how to fix the problem.
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...aa36b6e?hl=en&

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Suzanne