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Text file data source problem. Not recognizing tabs.
This is for Word 2003. I have a mail merge document that uses a
tab-separated text file as the data source. The text file looks something like this: Id Fname Lname address 01 John Doe 123 Fake St. 02 Joe Six-Pack 123 Fake St. When creating the merge file, I specify the data source as an OLE DB Database File (at the Confirm Data Source window), and then indicate that the field delimiter is Tab. This merge file seems to work fine on all the computers in the office except for one. On this one computer, Word isn't breaking the fields up as it should. Instead, it's combining all the fields in each record into a single field. So instead of seeing 4 fields (Id, Fname, Lname, and address), it sees a single field named Id_Fname_Lname_address. Obviously Word can't find that single field in the data source, and the merge fails. The merge was working on this computer as recently as a couple weeks ago, and I don't know what could have changed. Is there some setting that the user could have inadvertently changed that would cause this? Any ideas at all? Thanks. |
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