Hi Red Sox Fan,
Sounds like you have it sorted, but...
Judging from your other post, one problem you may have had was having either
your mail merge main documents or your data sources on read-only media.
I know that I will have to do the upgrade at
some point but I want to wait and do Vista first.
I try to work through these transitions using "virtual machine" software (I
use the pay-for VMWare but MS has its own free VM product) but it can be
difficult to set that up so I may not be doing you any favours by mentioning
it.
--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Red Sox Fan" wrote in message
...
Peter,
I found an old mail merge letter I tried to open it and it worked. So I
changed the letter to the current text and everything seems to be working.
I
just went in and deleted all the letters that were giving me trouble.
Phew!!! Thanks for the response. I was on the verge of upgrading but you
gave me reason to keep trying. I know that I will have to do the upgrade
at
some point but I want to wait and do Vista first.
--
JRF
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Although it is true that MS "support" for Word 2002 has gone to another
level (I STR they call it "maintenance mode" or some such) you should
still
be able to use Mail Merge without having to upgrade to Word 2007 and
preferably without encountering that particular piece of marketing.
However, since I do not know what the specific problem is, maybe you
could
try a couple of experiments. I'd probably start by trying to create a new
mail merge main document and attach it to an existing data source. Does
that
work? What if you then close and re-open that mail merge main document?
and
so on. If the merges don't work with your existing data sources, try
creating a new data source and connect to that. And so on...
--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Red Sox Fan" wrote in message
...
I have been using mail merge for letters in my tax business. Last month
I
tried to access one of them and I was notified that my program had
encountered a serious error and would have to shut down. I was asked
if I
wanted to notify Microsoft and I did. The message that I eventally
received
was the Microsoft was no longer giving full support to Word 2002 and I
should
consider upgrading to 2002. I tried my other mail merge letters and
got
the
same result. Does any one know of a solution without upgrading?
--
JRF