Responses in these forums are not provided by Microsoft, they are provided
by volunteers. Please keep that in mind.
In what group did you ask your other questions? I do not see them in this
group.
For your SQL problem, see the following Knowledge Base article:
"Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a
Word Document - 825765 at:
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Stan W." wrote in message
...
Graham Mayor -- Thank you for your reply.
Alow me to bring forward several points______
In your last paragraph you made mention of a "third party". What do you
mean
by this as knowwhere have I made mention of anyone else.
On the 1st May I asked a question regarding envelopes. Yesterday I asked
about guidance through the setting up of mail merge. These questions are
still unanswered, therefore "people do not answer questions asked". I also
suspect they do not read the message fully, get an idea in their head and
go
of on a tangent.
I find it hard to believe that a company with the resourses of Microsoft
can
not come up with something better.
I am starting my mail merge in Outlook. During the process, I get various
unexplained windows. One that I am looking at now is:-
Opening this document will run the following SQL comand:
SELECT * From C:\Documents and Settings\Stan W\My Documents\Accounts -
Crane
Hire.doc WHERE ((Categories = 'Crane Hire'))
Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to
continue?
What does this mean? What do I do here?
(Crane hire is one of the categories that I have created).
Stan W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
It is difficult to appreciate what you are doing at a distance. It sounds
like you are trying to integrate Outlook data with an existing merge
document with different field names. If you begin the merge from Word you
have a different set of field names and you are essentially back where
you
started. If you want to merge from Outlook to gain the extra
configurability
that this provides then you are going to have to edit the merge document
to
take account of the fieldname changes.
The posted link http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm explains
how to get the data. At the end of that page there is another link that
explains how to create a (label) merge. Labels are arguably the most
complicated of merges, but other merges are similarly conceived.
Now you have introduced a further variable "people do not answer all
questions asked" ? What people, what questions? None of this is going to
be
easy to set up for third parties until you have a good grounding in the
principles of mail merge.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
Yes, both Word and Outlook are 2003.
This is getting more and more confusing -- Is there some where that
will show you, step by step, how to set this up?
I have had data windows open with nothing in them, windows that say
data will be moved to some where else and not retained. Word opens
with several pages of meaningless fields, and on top of this, people
do not answer all questions asked.
Stan W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
The document file is the mail merge document that you propose
merging the data into.
The contact data file is the file used to save the subset of the
records you wish to merge. Otherwise the function creates a
temporary file for the purpose of this merge..
I take it that you have both Word *and* Outlook 2003?
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
O/K........I click on Mail Merge from the Outlook Contacts view.
This opens a window "Mail Merge Contacts".
In the centre of this window we have "Document File" -- New document
or Existing document.
What is the meaning of this? Am I suppost to create a file
containing ALL accounts in Outlook Contacts or only those that I
want to merge. Where do I keep this file?
I have been experimenting and when Word takes over I have come up
against a window that said something like Word cannot open this Data
file.
I also have my own envelope, when I inport it, the merge toolbar
greys out. Shoud I be printing these separatly then putting them
back through to address them?
Stan W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
I am using Word 2003 to Mail Merge Outlook folders ( Contacts or
Business A/c's) to envelopes.
When I get to the "Mail Merge Recipients" window, is there any way
of editing the recipients apart from unckecking the box on their
row? Also, can the columns be change to hold different info?
I am just starting into this venture and antisipate 2000 +
addresses eventually.
Mail Merges antisipated a- Country, country and state, post
code or geographic region, and Business categoriety.
I have removed updates for the period 12-13.04.06 without any
noticable change.
Thanks
Stan W.