Unfortunately AppleWorks merge seems to only use its own database and the built in one refuses to import a text field of any length, at a guess it breaks at about 256 characters. Word, on the other hand, has no problem accepting a merge document from FileMaker and accepts fields of any length. It was only a short piece of work to write the HTML surrounding the merge fields and I had a test page all ready. The merge in Word is easy to use and powerful. I grudgingly admit that Microsoft have done well here.
Word refuses to give raw HTML and converts it to formatted text.
Well the guys at FileMaker need to do a little more testing. Ignore them and restart the application, you then get complaints about the port being taken and the penny drops. So you change it to another port - in my case I used 8080 as I don't intend to run a proxy server, and it works great. Hey guys, you're supposed to be the kings of easy to build databases. I've made some cosmetic changes to the link system and started putting in the links.