>Cetin,
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>I found this article in the MS KB sometime ago.
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>"WD2002: Attaching a Large Comma-Separated Variable File as a Mail Merge Data Source Is Very Slow" on the Microsoft web site (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;286901).
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>Our tests showed that the time required to perform a mail merge using such a file - including Word document data file - is a quadratic function of the number of fields of the data source.
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>Ouch!!
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>Anyway, we are converting correspondence generation to a C++ DLL/active reports solution.
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>Thanks for your help in these matters,
>Raven

CSV ??? Why would you use a CSV datasource when there are OLEDB, ODBC drivers.
Cetin