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Word 97 opening Access 2000
Hi,
As a developer, to support various clients and legacy systems, I have Word 97 and 2000, and Access 2/95/97 and 2000 all installed on my Win 98se PC. This has worked absolutely fine for years. However, tonight, when I attempted a mailmerge with Word 97, it used Access 2000 to open an Access 97 database. It has always correctly used Access 97 in the past. I believe this was probably caused by my having Access 2000 open (doing something else) at the time, but after rebooting etc. Word 97 now refuses to open Access 97, insisting on running 2000 every time. I am sure this is just a registry setting - I don't fancy uninstalling both, reinstalling and setting preferences and loading service packs. Surely it's a one-liner? Can anybody tell me what I need to change? Thanks in anticipation. Phil |
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It may be a one-liner but at the moment I can't find it. Could it be in
WINWORD.INI? Suggestions: a. ensure you do not have a PATH that has the Access 2000 .exe before the Access 97 .exe. Sounds unlikely though. b. try to reverse what has happened by doing exactly the same thing the other way around, i.e. have Access 97 open then try to connect using DDE. Peter Jamieson "RS200Phil" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, As a developer, to support various clients and legacy systems, I have Word 97 and 2000, and Access 2/95/97 and 2000 all installed on my Win 98se PC. This has worked absolutely fine for years. However, tonight, when I attempted a mailmerge with Word 97, it used Access 2000 to open an Access 97 database. It has always correctly used Access 97 in the past. I believe this was probably caused by my having Access 2000 open (doing something else) at the time, but after rebooting etc. Word 97 now refuses to open Access 97, insisting on running 2000 every time. I am sure this is just a registry setting - I don't fancy uninstalling both, reinstalling and setting preferences and loading service packs. Surely it's a one-liner? Can anybody tell me what I need to change? Thanks in anticipation. Phil |
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Thanks very much indeed for the suggestions, Peter. Sadly I had no joy
with these. If in Word, you choose Tools / Mail Merge / Get Data then choose an Access database as the datasource, it will open A2K. I reset the file association, just in case, so if you click on the same MDB files in Explorer it correctly uses A97. Word / merge still insists on A2K, though. Aaargh!!!! Unless I have (or receive!) any inspiration in the next couple of days I'll just uninstall O'2K and re-establish the merge. I presume it will then have to use O'97. Then I'll reinstall O2K again. Sounds logical enough to me, but I'm really hoping to get to the bottom of this... Anyone else got any ideas? Thanks again. |
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