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Default Mail Merge Data Base File Name

Im currently setting up a mail merge in word 2003, i would like to be able to
show the name of the excel database which the word doc is linked to, is this
possible? any help would be great.

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Default Mail Merge Data Base File Name

Where do you want to show it?

The VBA command

ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Name

will return the name of the data source attached to a mail merge main
document.

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show the name of the excel database which the word doc is linked to, is
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