>I am having trouble getting microsoft word to open my data source when using the mail merge object. I have tried so many different options like writing a new table to disk, append to existing table, create new cursor, etc. I have been able to open word and perform the function manually while recording a macro, but can not get the code to work in VFP if I try to recreate it. I would appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks.
>(Error #1429 in mailmerge 8(63): OLE lDispatch execption code 0 from Microsoft Word: word was unable to open the data source...)

Do you have MDAC 2.10 with Service Pack 3 installed? I had the same problem with Word 97 and had to make sure my ODBC drivers were correct.

HTH