[Richard M. Hartman]

I have a membership app form that needs to be filled in for each of the
current members, for a renewal letter.
The master app form, with database field names, was created last year but I
need to run it against the current membership list.

I select:
Tools/Mail Merge
Create/Form letters
Active Window
Get Data/Open Data Source
browse to the Access database, click "open"
and at this point, it freezes

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-Richard M. Hartman

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[Peter Jamieson]

When you open the database in Access directly, do you see any dialog boxes
(e.g. a database password dialog box?)

If so, when you connect from Word 2000 and the database is not already open,
Access will display that box - but sometimes it is hidden behind Word, and
Word looks as if it has hung. In that case you can Alt-tab to find the
dialog box.

That's where I'd start, anyway.

Peter Jamieson

"Richard M. Hartman" wrote in message
...
I have a membership app form that needs to be filled in for each of the
current members, for a renewal letter.
The master app form, with database field names, was created last year but
I need to run it against the current membership list.

I select:
Tools/Mail Merge
Create/Form letters
Active Window
Get Data/Open Data Source
browse to the Access database, click "open"
and at this point, it freezes

--
-Richard M. Hartman

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!

You have insurance for your car and your health,
why not for your legal needs?
http://www.legalhmo.com