Whenever one of my Word 2003 users clicks on mail merge the floppy drive
starts churning like it is looking for a floppy disk. I have verified that
the drive is good. Also, none of the file locations under options point to
the floppy drive. Has anyone experienced this before? Thanks!

Yes. Someone using that computer logged in as that user attempted to do
something on a floppy drive with Word. This is a "no no!" What happens when
the user does a File Open?

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist! (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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Whenever one of my Word 2003 users clicks on mail merge the floppy drive
starts churning like it is looking for a floppy disk. I have verified
that
the drive is good. Also, none of the file locations under options point
to
the floppy drive. Has anyone experienced this before? Thanks!