First thing that comes to mind: Try exporting it to a .csv (or something) and merging that. Or have her send you a .csv.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Stephen Brownfield <steveei...@verizon.net> wrote: > My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing labels. She is > running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pro running 10.5. I am running Office X > on my iMac running 10.4.11. I can open the file in Excel, but when I try to > open it for a merge through Word, Word crashes. Do I need to upgrade my > version of Office or is there a work around? I only do this mailing list > twice a year. Other than that my main use of Office is to open documents > others have sent me ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************