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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word
2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
I don't know much about Vista 64 Enterprise, but I understand that it is
"optimised for security" in various ways. I wonder whether on that system, the ACE (Access) OLE DB provider that Word would normally use to open an Excel workbook is actually installed, or disabled in some way. (I find that slightly difficult to believe if Access is installed, but I suppose it is possible). That said, Word should then "fall back" to using ODBC (even less likely to be installed) and then DDE (which might also be disabled, or even absent, in that configuration). You could see if the ACE provider is there by going to Word Select Recipients-Use existing list-New Source, select other/Advanced, click Next, and see if the ACE provider is listed. A simple test to ensure that it isn't simply /all/ Mail merge data sources that fail would be to copy/paste your Excel table into a Word document, save and close, then try to use that as the data source. Or just create a small table in an empty Word document with a row contaiining column headers and a few rows of data, and try to use that. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word 2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
First of all, after a week of fighting with this with three different
documents, this morning it works fine... after I checked to make sure that the ACE provider was indeed installed. Same document, same source, different day. No reboot, no updates. Arrgh. In any event, thanks for the reply. In Puzzlement, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I don't know much about Vista 64 Enterprise, but I understand that it is "optimised for security" in various ways. I wonder whether on that system, the ACE (Access) OLE DB provider that Word would normally use to open an Excel workbook is actually installed, or disabled in some way. (I find that slightly difficult to believe if Access is installed, but I suppose it is possible). That said, Word should then "fall back" to using ODBC (even less likely to be installed) and then DDE (which might also be disabled, or even absent, in that configuration). You could see if the ACE provider is there by going to Word Select Recipients-Use existing list-New Source, select other/Advanced, click Next, and see if the ACE provider is listed. A simple test to ensure that it isn't simply /all/ Mail merge data sources that fail would be to copy/paste your Excel table into a Word document, save and close, then try to use that as the data source. Or just create a small table in an empty Word document with a row contaiining column headers and a few rows of data, and try to use that. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word 2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
I suppose it's just possible that even just checking was enough to cause
something to be enabled/installed on demand, all that kind of stuff. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... First of all, after a week of fighting with this with three different documents, this morning it works fine... after I checked to make sure that the ACE provider was indeed installed. Same document, same source, different day. No reboot, no updates. Arrgh. In any event, thanks for the reply. In Puzzlement, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I don't know much about Vista 64 Enterprise, but I understand that it is "optimised for security" in various ways. I wonder whether on that system, the ACE (Access) OLE DB provider that Word would normally use to open an Excel workbook is actually installed, or disabled in some way. (I find that slightly difficult to believe if Access is installed, but I suppose it is possible). That said, Word should then "fall back" to using ODBC (even less likely to be installed) and then DDE (which might also be disabled, or even absent, in that configuration). You could see if the ACE provider is there by going to Word Select Recipients-Use existing list-New Source, select other/Advanced, click Next, and see if the ACE provider is listed. A simple test to ensure that it isn't simply /all/ Mail merge data sources that fail would be to copy/paste your Excel table into a Word document, save and close, then try to use that as the data source. Or just create a small table in an empty Word document with a row contaiining column headers and a few rows of data, and try to use that. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word 2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
OK - real wierdness here - if I copy the file to OfficeLive and open it from
there and save it locally again, mailmerge breaks. If I start with the original file, it works. Seems that something in the OfficeLive storage/retreival process breaks it... Ahh, the mysteries of Office. Some things never change. (A user since version 2 -and list numbering still does not work intuitively). Thought I would let you know. Thanks, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I suppose it's just possible that even just checking was enough to cause something to be enabled/installed on demand, all that kind of stuff. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... First of all, after a week of fighting with this with three different documents, this morning it works fine... after I checked to make sure that the ACE provider was indeed installed. Same document, same source, different day. No reboot, no updates. Arrgh. In any event, thanks for the reply. In Puzzlement, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I don't know much about Vista 64 Enterprise, but I understand that it is "optimised for security" in various ways. I wonder whether on that system, the ACE (Access) OLE DB provider that Word would normally use to open an Excel workbook is actually installed, or disabled in some way. (I find that slightly difficult to believe if Access is installed, but I suppose it is possible). That said, Word should then "fall back" to using ODBC (even less likely to be installed) and then DDE (which might also be disabled, or even absent, in that configuration). You could see if the ACE provider is there by going to Word Select Recipients-Use existing list-New Source, select other/Advanced, click Next, and see if the ACE provider is listed. A simple test to ensure that it isn't simply /all/ Mail merge data sources that fail would be to copy/paste your Excel table into a Word document, save and close, then try to use that as the data source. Or just create a small table in an empty Word document with a row contaiining column headers and a few rows of data, and try to use that. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word 2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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Word 2007 - "word was unable to open the data source"
Ahh, the mysteries of Office. Some things never change. (A user since
version 2 -and list numbering still does not work intuitively). Quite! In my view there seems to be a lot of security-related weirdness these days, but I have no idea if this is a sample. I wonder if round-tripping a "compatibility mode" Word 97-2003 format .doc works better in your scenario? I'm not an OfficeLive user. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... OK - real wierdness here - if I copy the file to OfficeLive and open it from there and save it locally again, mailmerge breaks. If I start with the original file, it works. Seems that something in the OfficeLive storage/retreival process breaks it... Ahh, the mysteries of Office. Some things never change. (A user since version 2 -and list numbering still does not work intuitively). Thought I would let you know. Thanks, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I suppose it's just possible that even just checking was enough to cause something to be enabled/installed on demand, all that kind of stuff. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... First of all, after a week of fighting with this with three different documents, this morning it works fine... after I checked to make sure that the ACE provider was indeed installed. Same document, same source, different day. No reboot, no updates. Arrgh. In any event, thanks for the reply. In Puzzlement, tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: I don't know much about Vista 64 Enterprise, but I understand that it is "optimised for security" in various ways. I wonder whether on that system, the ACE (Access) OLE DB provider that Word would normally use to open an Excel workbook is actually installed, or disabled in some way. (I find that slightly difficult to believe if Access is installed, but I suppose it is possible). That said, Word should then "fall back" to using ODBC (even less likely to be installed) and then DDE (which might also be disabled, or even absent, in that configuration). You could see if the ACE provider is there by going to Word Select Recipients-Use existing list-New Source, select other/Advanced, click Next, and see if the ACE provider is listed. A simple test to ensure that it isn't simply /all/ Mail merge data sources that fail would be to copy/paste your Excel table into a Word document, save and close, then try to use that as the data source. Or just create a small table in an empty Word document with a row contaiining column headers and a few rows of data, and try to use that. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Tom Koski" wrote in message ... This is the only error I get when trying to open an excel data source in Word 2007 mailmerge document. This is a Vista Enterprise 64 system - the same document and spreadsheet works fine on my Win XP Pro 64 system... The spreadsheet is a simple single sheet workbook with 10 columns and 9 rows, although I have tried it with more complex multi-sheet workbooks, with the same results. In fact, I can't get it to open ANY kind of data source. Any ideas? Hopefully, Tom -- Thomas Koski Coastline Exploration, Inc. |
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