I'm using Office 2000. I have an access file that imports data into an excel
spreadsheet that I then use for Word Mail Merge. My columns in Access are in
the correct order and then when I open the file in Excel they are in the
correct order. However, when I open the reciepents dialog box the one column
I need to look at in order to know what Information I need is in position 25
instead of the first column. Why is Word reordering the columns?

Thanks for any help.

Did you mean Office 2002/2003? If so, you can drag and drop the columns, but
the resequencing doesn't "stick".

As I don't work for Microsoft I can't answer the question "why" they do
things this way. I suspect they are trying to ensure that fields with names
that suggest they are parts of an address always occur in the same sequence.
If you don't actually mind what your fields are called you could consider
renaming them with "banalised" names such as A01, A02 etc. in the hope that
Word will display them in the sequence you want.

Peter jamieson

"margaret" wrote in message
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I'm using Office 2000. I have an access file that imports data into an
excel
spreadsheet that I then use for Word Mail Merge. My columns in Access are
in
the correct order and then when I open the file in Excel they are in the
correct order. However, when I open the reciepents dialog box the one
column
I need to look at in order to know what Information I need is in position
25
instead of the first column. Why is Word reordering the columns?

Thanks for any help.