Slow Mail Merge in Word 2003

[dawvi]

hello everyone.

I encountered a little problem that I thought I would share and get some insight from anyone that may have come across this. We are migrating the users from Office 2000 to 2003, and one user was complaining that the mail merges in Word 2003 took twice as long as it did on Word 2000.

She is importing the data from a XLS file. I was wondering if anyone knew about this or has experienced the same problem.

Thanks in advance.

[firefoxthebomb]

I had a user complain about the same thing, I installed SP1 for office 2003 and it fixed it.

[dawvi]

thanks. i just checked with the user and the machine does have sp1 for office. one thing i am going to try now, is to make copies of the documents she is using and convert them to the latest version of office. maybe its because they were created under 2000?

[firefoxthebomb]

thanks.  i just checked with the user and the machine does have sp1 for office.  one thing i am going to try now, is to make copies of the documents she is using and convert them to the latest version of office.  maybe its because they were created under 2000?

thats a good Idea.