Moving the mailmerge main document around isn't the problem; it's moving the data source around that's the problem. If you keep the data source in a fixed folder to which all users have access, there shouldn't be any issues with the mailmerge main document finding it. That said, the mailmerge main document should also be kept in a folder all users have access to, instead of moving it around; otherwise there's a risk that different users will end up using different versions of the mailmerge main document for their merges.

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Paul Edstein
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You are, of course, entirely right. The only thing is that I am making a template that will be used by different people by different purposes. I would like them to be able to move the mailmergedocument and Excel source data to different folders without them having to reselect (remerge) the source file.

That isn't going to happen. How would Word ever know where it should look for the data source?

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Paul Edstein
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I realize that, Paul That's why my initial question was whether it might be possible to hard code the data source (which always has the same name) in the Mailmerge Word file itself so that it always looks for this datasource in the same directory the Mailmerge Wordfile is opened from? I really appreciate the help!