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Default "Unable to open data source" in mail merge

Do you mean a .csv, which is a delimited text file that you can open in,
and save from, Excel?

If so, can you open it in (say) Notepad and verify that it really is a
plain text file delimited by commas?

Peter Jamieson

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STEVE wrote:
It is an excel cvs extension on my hardrive

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

What is the data source? Where is it?

Peter Jamieson

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STEVE wrote:
This just started, and it was just successful in opening data.
Word 97.
Please help