Thanks for the reply.

I had reviewed the tutorial as part of my effort. It's relevance was lost on me in that I needed to create e-mail messages not a directory (I'm working in Office 2010) and that the data source is not readily manipulated. Have you been successful in generating single e-mails containing data from multiple records using your techniques?

Since my last post I've developed VBA code in Access to create a local table that contains a single record with data from multiple records in a linked table, using criteria specified in a Word userform. A test merge to e-mail showed that this table meets current requirements. (I have far greater experience with VBA than Word mergefields.) All that's left is to write the code to drive the merge.

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