Not really, since it doesn't answer the question I asked... I'd expect the mailmerge data source to be such a file but, unless your "contact name" field is the same as your "name" field (and likewise for the 'related' fields), that doesn't tell me where the contact names and their related data come from. If they are the same, why not use the mailmerge filters? That'd be a whole lot easier than trying to create a dropdown for doing only part of what the filters already do.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]