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Can mail merge data source be relative?
I have an MS-Word "Address List" file with a table having the typical
address fields. A number of MS-Word mail-merge documents refer to the Address List file. They're all in the same folder as the Address List. From time to time, I rename or move or copy the folder. I'd like the mail- merge documents to continue using the Address list in their folder, but Word seems to use an absolute path name as the internal data-source reference. So I end up having to manually change the data source of each mail-merge document. Is there a way to make the data source references relative, so they'll track the folder renames and moves? If that's not possible, is there a way to include an environment variable in the reference? For example, I have a Windows file shortcut with a target like this: "C:\Documents and Settings\self\My Documents\%THISYEAR%" where THISYEAR is an environment variable that gets changed each January 1. |
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