Using Word 2000 - attempting to create mail labels from one particular Excel
document. At the point where I must "Insert Merge Field" into the Sample
Label, Word will not read/recognize my column labels (Name, Address,
CityState, Zip) from the Excel doc., and instead only offers me a choice of
"AutoField", "AutoField1", etc. I have created labels in Word from _other_
Excel documents, but it continues to give me problems with this ONE Excel
document. Do I have some kind of embedded codes that are causing the
problem? I have put a cell border around the column labels in Excel, and
bolded them to differentiate them from the data cells.

Thanks for all your help.

The formatting may be part of the problem, but it's more likely that you've
got a blank row between your heading row and the record rows.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Augusta E." Augusta wrote in message
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Using Word 2000 - attempting to create mail labels from one particular
Excel
document. At the point where I must "Insert Merge Field" into the Sample
Label, Word will not read/recognize my column labels (Name, Address,
CityState, Zip) from the Excel doc., and instead only offers me a choice
of
"AutoField", "AutoField1", etc. I have created labels in Word from
_other_
Excel documents, but it continues to give me problems with this ONE Excel
document. Do I have some kind of embedded codes that are causing the
problem? I have put a cell border around the column labels in Excel, and
bolded them to differentiate them from the data cells.

Thanks for all your help.

Hi ?B?QXVndXN0YSBFLg==?=,

Does the table of data begin in cell A1? If not, try putting it there and see if
that makes a difference.

Using Word 2000 - attempting to create mail labels from one particular Excel
document. At the point where I must "Insert Merge Field" into the Sample
Label, Word will not read/recognize my column labels (Name, Address,
CityState, Zip) from the Excel doc., and instead only offers me a choice of
"AutoField", "AutoField1", etc. I have created labels in Word from _other_
Excel documents, but it continues to give me problems with this ONE Excel
document. Do I have some kind of embedded codes that are causing the
problem? I have put a cell border around the column labels in Excel, and
bolded them to differentiate them from the data cells.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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