No, Word always wants to connect to an external file, unless it is
connecting via ODBC, but in that case
a. it needs a user or system DSN, which is not very much different from
having an external file
b. you would need an ODBC driver capable of returning the data in your
DataSet. A tall order, I suspect!

Peter Jamieson

"lanem" wrote in message
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I've been doing a Mail Merge using an Excel Spreadsheet as the data source
using VB.NET. Can I just do it directly from my VB.NET code using a
DataSet
I have in the code? Thanks.