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Why won´t Word see my data when mail merging from Excel

Make sure you use the first sheet with MS Word

If you are mail merging in MS Word from an Excel spreadsheet, make sure that the worksheet which contains the data you wish to merge is the first (leftmost) sheet.

Word will not recognise any other sheets.

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