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Which is the best/fastest Mail Merge Data Source
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Word is happiest with a Word table as data source, but that has limitations
on the number of columns available for fields. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Philip L Jackson wrote: All For speed which is the best Mail Merge Data Source to use? Thanks |
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I was however primarily interested in datasource such as foxPro, csv files and other external databases. sorry I did not make myself clear Philip L Jackson "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word is happiest with a Word table as data source, but that has limitations on the number of columns available for fields. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Philip L Jackson wrote: All For speed which is the best Mail Merge Data Source to use? Thanks |
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In Word 2002/2003, when you first establish a connection, it can take quite
a long time whatever the data source (from what I have seen I suspect that this is because of the support for excluding/including individual records). I /believe/ that connection to OLEDB/ODBC type data sources is probably fastest. I doubt if it makes much difference what the specific backend is (FoxPro, Access, SQl Server etc.), as fetching the records is rarely the slowest link in the chain). Probably the best thing to do is try the same data loaded into your candidate databases/formats - it doesn't usually take long to import/export from one DBMS to another. Peter Jamieson "Philip L Jackson" wrote in message ... Thanks for this I was however primarily interested in datasource such as foxPro, csv files and other external databases. sorry I did not make myself clear Philip L Jackson "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word is happiest with a Word table as data source, but that has limitations on the number of columns available for fields. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Philip L Jackson wrote: All For speed which is the best Mail Merge Data Source to use? Thanks |
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