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Finding the path
I have a user in a department who has somehow deleted or renamed their mail
merge datasource (csv) and Word is throwing the usual "can't find" error, only the path is truncated (ie "c:\dir1\dir2\.....\filename.csv"). Is there any way of identifying the full path, perhaps with VBA? |
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As you've probably realised, you can't open the document without making a
connection or removing the connection, so a. you'll probably only be able to see the existing connection details if the original mail merge main document was saved in .rtf, .html or .xml format, in which case you could try opening the document as a plain text file, eiither in Word or e.g. Notepad and have a look for the data source name in there b. is there any artefact of the deleted file in Windows - e.g. could it be in the recycle bin? If it has been renamed, would a search for files with recent modification dates help? Maybe a file recovery utility would also be useful... Peter Jamieson "abrown" wrote in message news I have a user in a department who has somehow deleted or renamed their mail merge datasource (csv) and Word is throwing the usual "can't find" error, only the path is truncated (ie "c:\dir1\dir2\.....\filename.csv"). Is there any way of identifying the full path, perhaps with VBA? |
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