Hi ?B?QnJlbmRh?=,

My clients always have the exact same data source type and name -
rt_lettr.dbf. The path would also be the same - something like
R:\RT2006\%username%\Data Sources\rt_lettr.dbf.

In that case, roll your own. Create a macro that always connects
this data source, in this path, to the currently active document.
Assign it to a toolbar button, and remove the one built into Word.
Make sure you save these changes in an appropriate context. This
could be a template from which the user would create all mail merge
documents that link to this data source. It could be a global
template the user would load when needing to mail merge with such a
data source.

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

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