>Hi Cetin,
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>It still seems slow. I went back and changed the file format to xls. Once I did that the letter rendered almost instantly. Are there any inherent problems with using xls over a txt file? One other question. Does your Preview Results button work in 2007? The only way I can see my merged data is by clicking the "Finish Merge" button. The "Preview Results" doesn't seem to work.
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>Thanks Again,
>
>Chris

Preview button works.
When I added wdOpenFormatText it was instant too.
You may use XLS, that would need users have Excel besides Word.
It is very strange plain text makes word2007 slow.
Cetin