When using Word for Mail Merge I have been using a table as the data source for documents.....is there an alternative source (cursor etc) I could use?

The reason is this:

networked app for medical records where individual users need to access patient records and mail merge their details to letters etc in Word. Up to now, I have used a table located on each user's hard drive (c:\ipletters\letm.dbf) to store merge data just in case more than 1 user tries to store merge data at the same time - which precludes one table on the network drive.

So - if users could access a patient's record, store their name and address details in a temporary medium, and use this as the data source for Word, this would avoid each user having to have their own LETM.dbf on their hard drive.

Any ideas gratefully received!

Bob