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Word cannot open .dbf source data for mail merge
I am trying to do a mail merge but Word says it cannot open my .dbf data
source file despite having used this same file previously. Also in existing mail merge documents linked to the same .dbf file it will not update/refresh mail merge with new data added to database, stuck with data as it was when original document was created (one year ago) so now completely useless. |
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Word cannot open .dbf source data for mail merge
Are you getting automatic updates from Microsoft? I wonder if this is the
consequence of one of those. Which version of Word? What is creating the .dbfs (is it FoxPro, or something else?) Do you have Access, and if so, can you successfully create linked tables to the .dbf files? If so, you shoulf be able to use the linked table as a data source in Word and that may be the best way to go in future. Peter Jamieson "hjcoombs" wrote in message ... I am trying to do a mail merge but Word says it cannot open my .dbf data source file despite having used this same file previously. Also in existing mail merge documents linked to the same .dbf file it will not update/refresh mail merge with new data added to database, stuck with data as it was when original document was created (one year ago) so now completely useless. |
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Word cannot open .dbf source data for mail merge
Hi ?B?aGpjb29tYnM=?=,
I am trying to do a mail merge but Word says it cannot open my .dbf data source file despite having used this same file previously. Also in existing mail merge documents linked to the same .dbf file it will not update/refresh mail merge with new data added to database, stuck with data as it was when original document was created (one year ago) so now completely useless. Version of Word? Did you upgrade Word since you last used the mail merge? Or did you install something during this time that has anything to do with "data"? What database software is generating the dbf files? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word cannot open .dbf source data for mail merge
The .dbf file was created by FoxPro and I was using Word 2003 - I managed to
get someone else to help me and they said my ODBC(?) wasn't set up properly, I left them to it and it works now. Thanks Peter and Cindy for taking the time to reply. "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?aGpjb29tYnM=?=, I am trying to do a mail merge but Word says it cannot open my .dbf data source file despite having used this same file previously. Also in existing mail merge documents linked to the same .dbf file it will not update/refresh mail merge with new data added to database, stuck with data as it was when original document was created (one year ago) so now completely useless. Version of Word? Did you upgrade Word since you last used the mail merge? Or did you install something during this time that has anything to do with "data"? What database software is generating the dbf files? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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