I have looked through previous questions relating to this and have been unable to find a suitable answer.

I have a database in Excel, I have a document in word created through the mailings section.

However, when I try to send this email merge nothing happens.

From some of the discussions I have seen it appears Window Live does not support MAPI is something like that, so mail merging is not possible. Can someone please explain, if this is the case, why there is a email merge section in Window Live or at least why when you try to do the mail merge an error message doesn't appear. If Windows Live mail doesn't support mail merge, why on earth have that secion in there at all!!

Thank you to anyone who can shed some light on this and preferably advise what I can use as an alternative to Windows Live to achieve a mail merge.

Claire