[Peter Jamieson]

When the find record facility doesn't work, another possible approach is to
enable the Mailmerge toolbar (e.g. View-Toobars), then use the MailMerge
recipients box (3rd button from the left) to display the record list, scroll
up and down to find the record you need, then click it and close the dialog.

It's obviously not the easy search facility you need, but it probably will
work as long as your Excel sheet does not have more rows than the dialog can
hold (And its maximum is not huge - it's either 1000 or 10000 records, I
forget which off the top of my head).

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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Darlene" wrote in message
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I am trying to merg data from my excel 2003 sheet to form letters in word.
To find the record I want I put in a policy # but it won't find the
record.
The # would be as such 603652. Any suggestions as to how I can get it to
find the number I want to merge