I did delete the rows. As a matter of fact, when I hit Cntrl-End it took me to the last row but one column past the last column. I deleted that column, saved, closed the Excel file. I reopened and tested it again and it took me to the last row and last column so I figured I was OK.

Not so. I ran the merge again and it still kept going.

Let me point this out - but I don't know why this would matter. In my label file, I have some titles for the merged information such as Rt: <<Route>> then I insert the merge field from the Excel file. Does that matter?

Terry