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adding names to a recipient file
Assuming that you are using Word XP or 2003, from the View menu, select
Toolbars and place a checkbox against the Mail Merge item. Then you can customize that toolbar (ToolsCustomize) by selecting the All Commands Category and locating the Mail Merge Helper item and click and drag it onto the toolbar. Using the Mail Merge Helper, you should be able to edit the data source. Another way is to use a Directory type mail merge main document to which you attach the data source and in the main document, insert a one row table with as many columns as you have fields in your data source and into the cells of that table, insert the merge fields. When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source. You can then insert a row at the top of the table and into that row insert the names of the fields in your original data source. You can then edit the data in that table or add or delete rows and save it and use it as a data source. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... using the wizard, once I've entered all my contacts and gone on to the next step, how do I edit existing names or add more names to the contact mailing list. It only lets me sort or filter, etc. Thanks. |
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And if you are using Word 2007 select Edit Recipient List then select the
list in the lower window of the dialog box which makes the edit tools available. In Word 2003 you should be able to edit the data source from the mailmerge toolbar. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: Assuming that you are using Word XP or 2003, from the View menu, select Toolbars and place a checkbox against the Mail Merge item. Then you can customize that toolbar (ToolsCustomize) by selecting the All Commands Category and locating the Mail Merge Helper item and click and drag it onto the toolbar. Using the Mail Merge Helper, you should be able to edit the data source. Another way is to use a Directory type mail merge main document to which you attach the data source and in the main document, insert a one row table with as many columns as you have fields in your data source and into the cells of that table, insert the merge fields. When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source. You can then insert a row at the top of the table and into that row insert the names of the fields in your original data source. You can then edit the data in that table or add or delete rows and save it and use it as a data source. "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... using the wizard, once I've entered all my contacts and gone on to the next step, how do I edit existing names or add more names to the contact mailing list. It only lets me sort or filter, etc. Thanks. |
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using the wizard, once I've entered all my contacts and gone on to the next
step, how do I edit existing names or add more names to the contact mailing list. It only lets me sort or filter, etc. Thanks. |
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the Edit button is not lit up and nothing happens when I press it!
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... And if you are using Word 2007 select Edit Recipient List then select the list in the lower window of the dialog box which makes the edit tools available. In Word 2003 you should be able to edit the data source from the mailmerge toolbar. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: Assuming that you are using Word XP or 2003, from the View menu, select Toolbars and place a checkbox against the Mail Merge item. Then you can customize that toolbar (ToolsCustomize) by selecting the All Commands Category and locating the Mail Merge Helper item and click and drag it onto the toolbar. Using the Mail Merge Helper, you should be able to edit the data source. Another way is to use a Directory type mail merge main document to which you attach the data source and in the main document, insert a one row table with as many columns as you have fields in your data source and into the cells of that table, insert the merge fields. When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source. You can then insert a row at the top of the table and into that row insert the names of the fields in your original data source. You can then edit the data in that table or add or delete rows and save it and use it as a data source. "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... using the wizard, once I've entered all my contacts and gone on to the next step, how do I edit existing names or add more names to the contact mailing list. It only lets me sort or filter, etc. Thanks. |
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sorry, I didn't understand your reply. I clicked on the name of the
recipient list and the edit button lit up. thanks for you help. "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... the Edit button is not lit up and nothing happens when I press it! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... And if you are using Word 2007 select Edit Recipient List then select the list in the lower window of the dialog box which makes the edit tools available. In Word 2003 you should be able to edit the data source from the mailmerge toolbar. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: Assuming that you are using Word XP or 2003, from the View menu, select Toolbars and place a checkbox against the Mail Merge item. Then you can customize that toolbar (ToolsCustomize) by selecting the All Commands Category and locating the Mail Merge Helper item and click and drag it onto the toolbar. Using the Mail Merge Helper, you should be able to edit the data source. Another way is to use a Directory type mail merge main document to which you attach the data source and in the main document, insert a one row table with as many columns as you have fields in your data source and into the cells of that table, insert the merge fields. When you execute that merge to a new document, that document will contain a table with a row of data for each record in the data source. You can then insert a row at the top of the table and into that row insert the names of the fields in your original data source. You can then edit the data in that table or add or delete rows and save it and use it as a data source. "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... using the wizard, once I've entered all my contacts and gone on to the next step, how do I edit existing names or add more names to the contact mailing list. It only lets me sort or filter, etc. Thanks. |
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I've been having a similar issue, and looking at other newsgroups, it does
not seem to be isolated. What I haven't found is a resolution When editing a name in the recipient list of the mail-merge, I am unable to save the data file (in Word) that the mail-merge data is being drawn from. When I go to close the Word application, it asks to save the merged file, then to update the data file. When I go to update the data file, it gives me one of two errors--depending on whether I'm saving to a network or local drive: If saving to a network drive, I get a "read only" file error. If saving to a local drive I get a "permission to write" error. I've tried this with .docx and doc extensions for the data file, with the same error. I've been able to duplicate the error on multiple machines (all running XP and Office 2007 Enterprise). The data file is in table format in Microsoft Word, I've not attempted to duplicate the issue using Access or Excel data files. |
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I do not have a resolution for you, but FWIW on Vista
a. I reported the network-related problem well over a year ago, but the chances are it wasn't considered a priority for fixing in SP1 or any other update. b. I believe the problem relates to data sources that are opened directly by Word via its internal converters (e.g. .docx, .doc, some .htm, .rtf fiels or external text converters (.txt and other plain text files that are not opened by OLE DB/ODBC, and other word processing formats), but not data sources opened via OLE DB that Word considers to be editable. It affects files accessed via network shares (and in most cases, that means through mapped drive letters too) wherever they are located - i.e. even if the share is actually on your local drive. c. There are now several different sets of security rules on a typical Windows-based network node that might have an impact on this, e.g. i. Windows file system settings (e.g. is the file or folder read-only?) ii. Windows networking settings (e.g. does the user have write permissions to the network share) iii. Internet Explorer security settings iv. Word/Office "Trust Center" settings (It's difficult to see why (iii) should have an impact but there was/is an issue involving Windows Server 2003, IE Settings, and Mailmerge data sources that suggests to me that this posibility cannot be ruled out - particularly as opening a file through some IE proxy seems highly likely to render the file unwriteable/unsaveable) Unfortunately, none of the experiments I have done with any of the above settings has made any difference.I don't think (iv) has any bearing on the matter. (i) and (ii) obviously should, but in essence if you have the permissions necessary to edit the file as a normal Word document, you ought to have the permissions to edit it when Word opens it as a data source. Unless, of course, Word does not use your security credentials when it opens the file as a data source. but even if I give all possible permissions to "Everyone" for the file, the folder and the share it makes no difference. d. When the Mail merge main document is opened from a network share and you get the prompt to save the data source when you close the main document, the message uses a temporary name for the main document instead of the name of the file you actually opened. This suggests that Word (or perhaps this is just Vista) is using temp files for everything it opens from the network, which suggests that it might actually be using some inappropriate caching mechanism such as offline files. But perhaps that's just a red herring. I think I'll raise this one again, primarily to see if anyone knows whether ticking a specific security-related box might do the trick. But don't hold your breath. What I do find interesting is that you get problems even with files on a local drive. I don't, here. However, I have Admin level permissions here. Does it make any difference what folder you put the file in? (e.g. in "My Data Sources"?) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "mwballenger" wrote in message ... I've been having a similar issue, and looking at other newsgroups, it does not seem to be isolated. What I haven't found is a resolution When editing a name in the recipient list of the mail-merge, I am unable to save the data file (in Word) that the mail-merge data is being drawn from. When I go to close the Word application, it asks to save the merged file, then to update the data file. When I go to update the data file, it gives me one of two errors--depending on whether I'm saving to a network or local drive: If saving to a network drive, I get a "read only" file error. If saving to a local drive I get a "permission to write" error. I've tried this with .docx and doc extensions for the data file, with the same error. I've been able to duplicate the error on multiple machines (all running XP and Office 2007 Enterprise). The data file is in table format in Microsoft Word, I've not attempted to duplicate the issue using Access or Excel data files. |
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