Hi Antranik,
First of all I would like to thank you for your kind words on this terrible act of violence. I agree we all must stand shoulder to shoulder and stop this sensless acts.
Now to answer your question. If you will create a temp table as a fox2x and append your data into that table you will be able to do mailmerge with out having to have any ODBC. Word97 will Recognize the 2x table and then you can dow what ever you need to do.
I have several apps done this way with Word97
HTH
Bill