Hi ?B?Sm9hbm5l?=,

I am using an Excel Spreadsheet created in 2000 but currently being used in
2003. in Mail Merge in 2000 I was always able to edit the list from within
the Mail Merge but now I am using 2003 the Edit Recipient link seems not to
work. Are you suggesting this link only works on data sources created within
the Mail Merge and not with those created as stand alone data sources?

that's basically correct. It can be used with Word tables and text data sources,
as well. But not for external sources.

In Office 2000, the default connection method for Excel (and Access) was DDE.
This started up the actual application, so all the button had to do was bring
that window to the front. In Office 2002/2003 the default connection method is
OLE DB, which operates independent of the application interface (as a matter of
fact, Excel doesn't even have to be installed on the machine). So it's no longer
a matter of bringing the application window to the front.

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

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