You receive a "Run-time error '5631'" error message when you use a VBA macro to create a mail merge in Word 2003 (828388)

RESOLUTION

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Sub PrintMerge()
        Dim oDoc As Document
        Dim oMM As MailMerge
        Dim oDataDoc As Document
        Dim oTable As Table
        Set oDoc = Application.Documents.Add
        Set oMM = oDoc.MailMerge
        oMM.MainDocumentType = wdFormLetters
        oMM.CreateDataSource Name:="data.doc", HeaderRecord:="First" & Application.International(wdListSeparator) & "Last"
        oMM.EditDataSource
        Set oDataDoc = Application.ActiveDocument
        Set oTable = oDataDoc.Tables(1)
        oTable.Rows.Add
        oTable.Rows.Add
        oTable.Cell(2, 1).Range = "Sidney"
        oTable.Cell(2, 2).Range = "Higa"
        oTable.Cell(3, 1).Range = "Kim"
        oTable.Cell(3, 2).Range = "Ralls"
        oTable.Cell(4, 1).Range = "Bjorn"
        oTable.Cell(4, 2).Range = "Rettig"
        '*******
        oDataDoc.Save 'This is the added line to save the data document.
        '*******
        oMM.Fields.Add oDoc.Content, "First"
        oMM.DataSource.FirstRecord = 1
        oMM.Execute    
    End Sub