[Laura[_4_]]

I hope someone can help me soon as I'm very frustrated. I have Office 2000
Professional and Windows XP SP3. I recently reinstalled everything on my
computer after doing a system restore and for some reason which I cannot
work out, I cannot do a Mail Merge using a Table in Access (or even a
Spreadsheet in Excel) with Word.

I have my Word document open and I click on Tools, Mail Merge, Active
Window. When I click on Get Data and locate my Access table it opens the
Access table and then it hangs and eventually I have to quit Word all
together. I see this message on the status bar of Word -

waiting for microsoft access to accept dde commands

But nothing happens. I'm at my wits end. I have uninstalled Office and
re-installed it.. still nothing. What is the problem? Hope someone can help
soon - I have a huge mailmerge to do tomorrow.

Thanks
Laura