Thanks for the reply. the file is at the office, I'll post tomorrow.

Cleaning up my last post, I meant that I have been able to get a simple text list inserted into a target document as successive fields, using mail merge. Everything works. My remaining question is when I use 'transpose' in the paste special' function, the order goes awry. i will post a copy of the vertical list in excel, and the result of the transpose paste, tomorrow. Cheers, 2s