following step by step instructions & have done it successfully before, but when I try to open an Excel doc as the data source, the screen locks up & program doesn't respond. Have to close the app.
It could be that the file you're using as a data source is too large, causing Windows to exceed the limits of your computer's RAM. Try extracting just the data you need from the spreadsheet into a MS Word 2000 table, and save that document as a separate Word document (your new data source).