Hi Mary,

I have an application that runs a Word Mail Merge on a Citrix machine.
The client is presented in Word Mail Merge but the client can not click
on the Open Data Sources button on the Mail Merge toolbar because the
Citrix machine is locked down and Word is running on the Citrix machin.
I want to have the My Data Sources moved to another machine, with a
drive letter mapping, so when they click on Open Data Sources they are
in some folder on say the R:\ drive.

Can you change the location of the My Data Sources, or more importantly
the location of the Open Data Sources button?

I'm not really familiar with Citrix or Terminal Server, beyond the very
surface (=end-user) But as far as I know, the answer to the first is no.
If I recall correctly, it can't even be done with a system policy.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the second question. I don't recall
ever seeing this toolbar button locked down, but it may indeed be because
the folder isn't available. If that's the case, the literal answer to
your question is no.

POSSIBLY, you can "roll your own" functionality for letting users link up
to data sources. A lot will depend on how wide a range of possible data
sources they're to be allowed to use. The process of connecting to a data
source is potentially very complicated.

Have you actually discussed this with Microsoft? They do overlook things
when developing apps, and Mail Merge is definitely a "step child", but I
would hope they wouldn't have forgotten this very basic requirement?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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