I have a desktop with windows vista.

This problem can occur on a Vista machine with tablet or some other
multimedia functions enabled - even if you just have a pen input device on
your system.

As far as I know, the only ways to get around this are
a. the suggestions in the article referenced by Susan
b. a macro as suggested by Doug - there are some instructions on how to use
these macros at

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

c. identify which device is causing the problem and disable it. But since
that's likely to require even more "techie" capability than (a) or (b), I'd
probably opt for (b).

I don't understand why microsoft cannot or won't fix this problem???

Well, most of the people who reply to questions here are volunteers who do
not work for Microsoft, so it's difficult to do anything more than
speculate, but the main reasons why stuff doesn't get fixed are (a)
budgetary (no budget to investigate or fix as other things have a higher
priority), (b) can't pin down the cause (which I would doubt in this case)
and (c) the "fix" causes a different problem. Personally, I am also
surprised that this problem was not fixed before it reached Vista.

Peter Jamieson

"Dina" wrote in message
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The exact same thing is happening to me.
i've spent countless hours on tech support with microsoft and they cannot
or
refuse to help me with this issue.
I've read Doug's response, but i am not a "techie", and don't even know
what
to do with Doug's response. I do not have a tablet pc. I have a desktop
with windows vista.
I don't understand why microsoft cannot or won't fix this problem???
I'm so frustrated that I cannot perform a simple mail merge to labels, the
exact same labels that KAT is using. It' should be computer 101.
Any ideas on how a non "techie" can resolve this issue?


"KAT" wrote:

I'm merging data from an Excel workbook to create labels, which I have
done
hundreds of times in the older versions of Word, however now I cannot get
Word 2007 to propagate all of my labels. When I click on the "update
labels" button it only propagates the first three and the last two labels
on
each page (out of 30 labels). I've already rechecked my data source but
have
found nothing out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?