I'm not sure this is a job for mailmerge. If the data are always at the same locations in Excel, you may be able to get the desired results by copying those cells and pasting them into Word using Paste Special with the 'paste link' option and the format of your choice. That way, whenever the Excel data are updated, the Word data too will update. This could used in templates and/or static documents. The only caveat is that you'll need to break the links if you create documents where it's important that the data remain static, so as to reflect the state of the data at a particular time.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]