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In the MS Help, it says the following:
Restore a mail merge main document to a regular document By removing the associated data source from a main document, you can convert it to a regular document. 1.. Open the main document from which you want to remove the data source. 2.. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Mail Merge. 3.. Click Main Document Setup . 4.. Click Normal Word document. OK, so I tried this on one of these completed documents and the radio button is already set to Normal Word Document. It may be helpful to explain what I'm doing. I have a letter that has form fields in it. These fields relate back to an excel spreadsheet. When the user wants to create a new letter, he updates the fields in the spreadsheet. He is typically creating one letter at a time, not many. The fields are manually entered into the spreadsheet in one location, and they are copied from that location to a temporary place in the spreadsheet. That way he can keep a record of the letters he's sent, but has a separate page in which he can paste one row of data for a single merge. The Word template is associated to the data, and the location of the data always remains the same. It must be something about the template, the way it stores the connection to the data fields... "Jeni Q" wrote in message ... : Hello. I've read KB 825765 so I understand when and why I get prompted with : the "Opening this will run the following SQL command" message when you open : a Word mail merge main document that is linked to a data source. : : However, I do not understand why I get prompted for the document after the : merge has run and my new document has been created and saved. When I close : and reopen the newly created document, I still get the prompt. There is : obviously a data attachment still existing. Is there any way to break that : attachment? : : I may not be understanding clearly how the merge process worked. I thought : it brought data into the new document and that's it. Is it continuously : going to the data source to get the data? : : Any help/advice would be appreciated. : : Thanks, : Jennifer Dickens : : |
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