Brenda,
don't know if this helps at all, but I use the following:

goWord = CREATEOBJECT('Word.Application.8') && Open Microsoft Word
goWord.DOCUMENTS.OPEN(THISFORM.LocalDoc) && Open mailmerge document
goWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = 0 && Set this property to remove any attached data source
goWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource(THISFORM.MergeFile) && Set data source to MailMrge table on local drive
goWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Execute && Do the mailmerge

All mailmerge documents are stored on the server. Before executing the above code to do the mailmerge, the document and data source are copied to the local drive. The 3rd line of code breaks the link and the 4th line reestablishes the data source.

Gary