[Mike DiCanio]

Sorry no it is not. Word 2003.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Is this also Word 2007?

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"Mike DiCanio" wrote in message
...
I am having the same problem as all of you. I receive the error "Word
cannot
find the source ". My files are on the network and have long descriptive
file names. Please let me know if there is any further information on
this
from your experiences.

Thanks.

Mike

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Wen you have managed to open it, use Tools-Addins and Templates to have
a
look.

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"Jane" wrote in message
...
do you mean connected to a .dot file? How would I find out if it is?

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

One other thing that may be worth checking is that the document is not
connected to a template that also has a dtaa source (maybe the same
one)
attached.

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"Jane" wrote in message
...
I'll try that. I'll check into the permissions on network drives
too.
If
I have to I'll call Microsoft. Thanks for your help.

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

OK, I checked again with a similar length pathname and it does not
appear
to
be long enough to cause problems here. Which leaves me a bit stuck.

If you are able to test the same document and mail merge source on
a
much
shorter network path and it still does not work, I think that would
help
establish that it is probably something to do with the network
setup.
I
would be looking at the permissions for the /share/ and for the
underlying
folder - e.g. you may need to be able to read and write to both the
share
and the folder (even though mailmerge typically only reads the data
source).

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"Jane" wrote in message
...
1. The two files are in the same folder on a network drive.
2. the path to the data source is longish:
\\server\company\word\mhl clients\h\hollowayjane\mailmerge.txt
when I tested on the local drive it was short:
c:\cis\mailmerge.txt
3. there are no filters or sorts

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I just did some simple tests here and was able to re-open when
both
Mail
merge Main Document and data source were on the same network
drive,
i.e.
suggesting that the problem does not occur solely because it's a
netwrok
drive (it worked whether I connected using E DB or the internal
text
file
converter).

A few questions:
a. are your mail merge document and data source in the same
network
folder?
b. how long is the pathname of the data source? e.g. longer or
shorter
than
the pathname you used when testing on a local drive? - the total
length
consists of all the charaters in

\\computername\sharename\folders`filename.ext

c. have any sorts or filters been applied to the data?
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"Jane" wrote in message
...
I'm having a very similar problem.

In Word 2003 (on a Windows 2003 network) we cannot save word
merge
files
with a user -assigned data source. One of the following will
happen:
1. Our Word Merge templates (the 'letter' part of the file)
are
copied
into
a client directory, and staff edits the file to 'link' to the
new
data
source
(text file with CSV). Staff saves the document. The next
time
the
staff
opens the document Word responds with 'Opening this document
will
run
the
following SQL Command' - as we would expect - but then we get
a
message
'Word
cannot find its data source ' - displaying the name of the
file
we
linked
in
- which we know is there - so staff selects 'Find Data Source'
and
re-opens
the file. WE GET THE SAME MESSAGE - Word cannot find its data
source.
The
only option is to remove the headers. But even after we do
that,
Word
Merge
cannot find the data source. We cannot save the Word merge
file
with
the
correct data source attached.

Here's the strange part. All our word files are saved to the
network -
the
templates and the data source. If I attached a data source
that's
on
my
local drive to the word file, there is no problem - the merge
file
with
the
new data source saves fine.

It's as if the merge file does not want a data source that's
on a
network
drive - or is it the path?


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Well spotted on the incorrect display of the file path name,
but
unfortunately as far as I know it is a red herring and does
not
indicate
anything other than a fault in the display. Further, whether
the
Mailmerge
task pane displays the "long" data source location details or
just
the
short
file name depends on whether the data source is in what Word
thinks
is
the
"active" folder" (I think) - i.e. it is likely to change to
that
folder
if
you create a test .csv in Word and save it.

However, things are complicated by the fact that Word has a
number
of
different mechanisms for opening a .tx or .csv type file and
chooses
the
mechanism depending on the file content (I think). I don't
work
for
Microsoft or have have access to the source code, so I have
to
guess,
but
in
Word 2002(XP) and 2003, I believe Word will either use Word's
built-in
text
converter to read the file, or OLE DB. If it uses OLE DB, it
generates
a
"connection string" which contains the path name of the
folder
containing
the file. However, Word does not save the whole connection
string
(max
255
characters I think) and can truncate the pathname, so when
you
close
and
re-open the When you close the mail merge main document and
re-open
it,
Word
can't find the file.I'm not so sure that happens when Word
opens
the
file
using its converter.

Anyway, if you try putting the file in a folder with a short
pathname
I
think it will always work.

However, there could also be problems if Word does not
recognise
the
character encoding of your .csv file correctly - but let's
leave
that
for
now.

Peter Jamieson

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ps.com...
Hi,

I'm having a problem getting Word to remember the link to
its
data
source for some files. It continually asks to locate the
data
source
and if you point it to the file it just continually loops
back
and
asks for the file location again. If you tell it "No" on
the
SQL
check dialog, the file opens and I can go to "Open Data
Source"
and
point to the file that way.

The merge document is a one page letter. The data is a
simple
csv
file with only 10 fields.

I've tried putting the csv file in the My Data Sources
folder
and
that
doesn't fix it.