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    Data form in word 2010?

    oh, ok, now i see what your are getting at. i guess. it sits there, i can open it and do some things with it in 2010. i guess you are saying that essentially the machinery of dealing with it, not of dealing with 2010 mailing lists, does not exist in 2010. i will therefore learn to make a...
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    Data form in word 2010?

    i am not asking to do something new, radical, very different, just to something that i have been doing for years. are you saying that the "improved" word requires learning what would be very new for me in order just to do what i have been doing for a long time? does that make sense? i do not...
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    Data form in word 2010?

    as i said i have already created a data source and used it in many mailmerges. it is small, about 350 entries, and will probably not exceed 500 in the future. are you saying that word 2010 requires an entirely new data source? word 2010 re[produces accurately my existing data source and i can...
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    Data form in word 2010?

    i know how to do the mail merge. all i am talking about is how to make an entry into the mailing list. i am not even sure that the suggestion above deals with my question. i can't go learning whole new processes without being sure that they are aimed at my [problem. people keep making...
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    Data form in word 2010?

    this is way beyond me. i do not understand ribbons and what is meant by "forms" here. i have a mailing list; all i want is to be able to edit it. i have found controls that allow me to move around in it and find names or other words, then edit those entries. but i cannot figure out how to...
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    Data form in word 2010?

    Hello, i have been using word 97 until recently. it had a data form that i used to edit my mailing list. it allowed me to enter new addresses easily, correct old ones, move easily to any part of the mailing list and to find names via a find feature. now that i have to use word 2010 i cannot...