Ok, I cannot seem to figure this out or at least get it to work right. What I
am doing is trying to bring a list customers from an excel sheet and have
their lastname print on it with the proper salutation for them in a Word
document. In the excel sheet, the columns are labeled as lastname then
firstname then sex. When I use the mailmerge option, i get either the sex
and lastname(F Martinez) or firstname lastname (Emilia Martinez). I want it
to show Ms. Martinez.. I cannot do a substitutionon the Excel sheet. If I
could, the problem would have been solved along time ago. I am a little
frustrated by it. I have been working on it for 2 days now. I need the Word
document to read " Dear Ms. Martinez,".

Sorry for the whining. I am just aggravated at it now.