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MAIL MERGE TOOLBAR
I am using Word 2003
How do I get the "Mail Merge" toolbar to come up automatically whenever I bring up a mail merge document and to go away when I have closed that document? Aurora |
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MAIL MERGE TOOLBAR
Graham Mayor posted a reply to your previous question as follows:
The short answer is that you can't, because Word 2003 intends that you use the task panes for merge. However it is a simple matter to add a macro to a toolbar button to toggle the merge bar on and off as required eg Sub MergeBar() With CommandBars("Mail Merge") ..Visible = Not .Visible End With End Sub See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Aurora wrote: I am using Word 2003 In Word 2000, the mail merge toolbar came up automatically when I opened a merge file. It does not in Word 2003. If I bring up, the mail merge toolbar, manually it stays up even when I am not working in a merge file. I do not like toolbars are my screen that I am not using. How do I get this to come up automatically when I am working in a merge file? Aurora |
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The essential tool to make this work seems to be the 'Mail Merge
Helper' (MMH) dialogue, which doesn't get used by default in Word2003. In short if you use this tool to create a new or modify an existing MM document it will subsequently display the MM toolbar when opening the doc and remove it when closing. What I have now done is to install the MMH button on my standard toolbar. You can find it in Tools/Customize/Commands/All Commands/. The button remains 'active' even if the current doc is not MM. Open a new blank document and click on the MMH button to get the dialogue to create a MM document (as we used to in Word 2000). Once you have linked to your data source the MM toolbar will behave in the 'old' way. This has worked for me with new docs and with old ones that previously had not automatically displayed the toolbar in Word2003 but will do once I reconnect to the data sorce using the MMH dialogue and then save the doc. Best wishes Graham "Aurora" wrote: I am using Word 2003 How do I get the "Mail Merge" toolbar to come up automatically whenever I bring up a mail merge document and to go away when I have closed that document? Aurora |
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