Hi ?B?TG91aXNl?=,

I have opened the main document containing the letter, opened the mail merge
toolbar and clicked onto the second icon which has allowed me to select the
data source I wish to use. This seems to have worked fine and has
'reconnected' the source to the original letter. I just couldn't understand
why the link disappeared in the first place?

We got there in the end....

OK, thanks for confirming that :-)

WHY (assuming "No" was never clicked and the file path was always available) is
hard to say without having been part of the team that moved / upgraded the
user. Could be a small glitch in the documents' internal file structures (one
that propagated from the template from which they were all created).

It's also possible that Word somehow realized things "weren't the same"
(different machine name or something) and decided it didn't know how to find the
file path.

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

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