[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Is _soc09 the name of the range in Excel?

If I use a range with that name in an xslx workbook, I do not have a problem
linking to it.

Try going to Word OptionsAdvanced (via the Office button) and then scroll
down to the General Section and check the box against the Confirm File
Format Conversion on Open and try and use a different connection method.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"browniebodrum" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply, Doug. Sorry not to get back to you quicker. The
data
is in a named range in an Excel .xlsx worksheet. When I try to open the
Word
document, I get the dialog box to say it's going to link to the data, to
which I say 'OK' and then this error message comes up (complete with
misspelling of occurred): Error has occured: The Microsoft Office Access
database engine could not find the object '_soc09. Make sure the object
exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I cannot replicate that problem here with a datasource that is named
range
in an Excel spreadsheet that is saved as an .xslx file. What format is
your
data source?

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"browniebodrum" wrote in
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I've been producing a directory using Word and a named range in an
Excel
worksheet for many years without any real problems. Now I've upgraded
to
Office2007, it seems I can't open my mailmerge 'master document' in
Word
unless I first close the file where the data exists in Excel. If both
programs are open at the same time, Word produces an error to say that
the
database engine can't find the (named range) object. Then, when I've
completed the merge, I have to close Word, otherwise when I try and
open
the
file in Excel again, I get an error message to say the file format or
extension is not valid. It's a pain keep having to close one or the
other
down and I'm pretty sure I didn't have to do so in earlier versions of
Office. Am I missing something?