[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Did you nominate the type of merge that you wanted to perform? Did you
insert the merge fields into the mail merge main document? If you press
Alt+F9 in that document, what do you see?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"digitalmuse" wrote in message
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have tried doing this several times and am at a loss. Need to do a mail
merge
with the data coming from an Excel spreadsheet following the steps to
complete the merge no data shows up on preview just blank pages. What step
am
I missing? The excel document does have headers in the first row to
indicate
the fields(data type)