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.doc data file in Mail Merge
I now have Office Pro 2003. Before I had Office 97, and I developed some
mail merge procedures producing confirmation letters which required 38 data elements. Both my main and data files were .doc files. These do work with Office Pro 2003. But now I find when I go to create a new mail merge, the data portion of the mail merge directs me to a New Address List Panel which creates a .mdb file. The disadvantage of this is that I must switch from Word to Access to edit my data which is inconvenient. Is there some way I can generate the data portion of the mail merge as a .doc file like I used to do it? |
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Either select Toolbars from the View menu and check to Mailmerge item to
display the mailmerge toolbar which contains buttons that allow you to perform the whole merge process, or to get the old Mail Merge Helper back, select Customize from the Tools menu and then on the Commands tab, select the All Commands category and scroll down through the list of Commands until you find the Mail Merge Helper item and then click and drag it onto a menu or toolbar. Either of these way should allow you to avoid the issue that troubles you. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "TomC" wrote in message ... I now have Office Pro 2003. Before I had Office 97, and I developed some mail merge procedures producing confirmation letters which required 38 data elements. Both my main and data files were .doc files. These do work with Office Pro 2003. But now I find when I go to create a new mail merge, the data portion of the mail merge directs me to a New Address List Panel which creates a .mdb file. The disadvantage of this is that I must switch from Word to Access to edit my data which is inconvenient. Is there some way I can generate the data portion of the mail merge as a .doc file like I used to do it? |
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