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Graham Mayor
 
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Default Path to data Source

If there is, I don't know it

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JethroUK© wrote:
i'm using 2002 & it loses the data every time - but i take it there
is no access to the path


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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My tests (Word 2003) show that if the merge document cannot find its
data file in the saved location, it looks next in the folder
containing the merge document.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


JethroUK© wrote:
Is it possible to create a 'relative' path to the datasource?

or would you know where it keeps that path? so i can try

I would like all my mailmerges to be portable - but everytime i try
them on another machine i have to re-create all the paths to the
datasource (which is always in the same folder as the letters) -
grrrrrr