I cannot explain why it may have worked in Word 2000. However, in all
versions of Word since Word 97, I would expect to see code something like
that which is included n the following exerpt from the Visual Basic Help
file:

Returns a MailMerge object that represents the mail merge functionality for
the specified document. Read-only.

Note The MailMerge object is available regardless of whether the specified
document is a mail merge main document. Use the State property to determine
the current state of the mail merge operation.

Example
This example executes a mail merge if the active document is a main document
with an attached data source.

Set myMerge = ActiveDocument.MailMerge
If myMerge.State = wdMainAndDataSource Then myMerge.Execute
This example merges the main document with data records 1 through 4 and
sends the merge documents to the printer.

With ActiveDocument.MailMerge
.DataSource.FirstRecord = 1
.DataSource.LastRecord = 4
.Destination = wdSendToPrinter
.SuppressBlankLines = True
.Execute
End With
There is nothing at all in the code that you have posted that refers to
Mailmerge.That is my point.
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"Virgil" wrote in message
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I'm not sure what your point is because this is actual VBA
code from an Access 2000 function which DOES execute a
mail merge in a Word 2000 document using an Excel
spreadsheet. It based on code from Helen Feddema's
book "Expert One-on-One Microsoft Access Application
Development". Now this same code doesn't work in
Access/Word 2003 and I'm trying to find out what changes
to make to make it execute a mail merge rather that just
give me a new document that hasn't been merged with the
data source.
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I can only repeat what I said before, there is nothing at
all in that code
that has anything to do with mailmerge.

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"Virgil" wrote in
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Yes. That's code from the Access VBA using MS Word 9.0
Object Library. Also shoudl have said that the code
works
fine in Access 2000. I'll post this problem in the
Acess
area.

-----Original Message-----
There's nothing at all in that code that has anything to
do with mailmerge.
Did you post the right code?

Check out the Mailmerge item in the Visual Basic Help
file for details on
how to use vba to execute a mail merge.

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"Virgil" wrote in
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Folks, I'm tearing my hair out trying to find out WHY
this
VBA code doesn't merge data into a Word 2003 template!
The
code is used in an Access 2002 database. The variables
are
fine. It creates an active document from a template
but
it does NOT merge the data.

With gappWord
.Selection.WholeStory
.Selection.Fields.Update
.Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
.ActiveDocument.SaveAs gstrJobsheetsPath &
strNewFileName
.Visible = True
.ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize
.Activate
End With


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