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Hi Dennis,
I have a successful mail merge setup that uses a local Excel file as my address list. When I place this file on a remote web site, so that it is addressed as http://www.website.com/spreadsheet.xls rather than c:\my documents\spreadsheet.xls, Word 2003 spends a few seconds trying to retrieve the spreadsheet and then reports the following error message: "The document name or path is not valid" Actually, this is due to the fact that Word's core mail merge technology is some 15 or 20 years old. Before internet addresses were commonplace. Word didn't learn to recognize internet addresses at all until version 97, and then only for opening files. I'm afraid the data source has to be saved to a traditional network or local path. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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