changing mail merge recipients order

My database contains the following: section, company,
name, phone, fax, cell, address, city state zip
When I open mail merge recipients, the order of these
columns have changed. The new order is company, address,
phone, section, fax, and city state zip.
I have drags the columns to the correct order and pushed
refresh but every time I open the mail merge recipients,
it reverts back to the incorrect order.
Can I correct this?

Word 2002/2003 sequences the fields in the Recipients dialog according to
its own set of rules, which are (probably) based on a standard set of field
names typically used in addresses. If you can use nonstandard field names
you might be able to influence the sequence, but otherwise I know of know
way to achieve wht you want.

--
Peter Jamieson

"Glenn Mitchell" wrote in message
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My database contains the following: section, company,
name, phone, fax, cell, address, city state zip
When I open mail merge recipients, the order of these
columns have changed. The new order is company, address,
phone, section, fax, and city state zip.
I have drags the columns to the correct order and pushed
refresh but every time I open the mail merge recipients,
it reverts back to the incorrect order.
Can I correct this?