Problems with mail merge

[jclohesy]

I teach IT and have just had an odd problem. Teaching mail merge, usin
a table in Excel and a form letter in Word, to make an Invoice . Th
merge failed to transfer the fields correctly, ( into a table i
Word).

Strangely the problem occured on my computer ( displaying to th
students via a projector) and on 4 student machines, but not all o
them. Previously I have demonstrated mail merge lots of times, withou
problems.

Any ideas where I need to look to find the problem ? We suspect it wa
something in the way we prepared the data table in Excel, although i
might be related to the table in the Word document.

Any help will save me from acute embarassment when I teach the grou
next week !

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

What version of Excel are you using?
How is your table set up, and how is it different from previous tables?

David McRitchie has instructions for mail merge on his web site:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm

Also, there's information on the Word MVP site:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm