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mailmerge preview button grayed out
Here I am again:
Hi all Using Word 2000 on XPSP2, I try to merge an Excel address file with an enveloppe. I succeded with the layout with sender and variable address areas, and in mailmerge manager (German: "series print manager") it says "Layout and data source ready for use". Now I want to see a previev of my envelope using the first and then the next address rows from the Excel file according to the specified column headers «€¦Â» in the variable area. Help says to click the preview button (similar to «ABC») in the mailmerge tool bar, but this is gray and dead. In the mailmerge manager, the Execute button is gray and useless too. I can print with the correct layout, but only get the column headers «€¦Â» on the envelope. Where did I go wrong? Many thanks in advance flowe |
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It sounds like you do not have any merge fields in the mailmerge main
document. Is there something between the and does it match the names of the fields in the 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 "flowe" wrote in message ... Here I am again: Hi all Using Word 2000 on XPSP2, I try to merge an Excel address file with an enveloppe. I succeded with the layout with sender and variable address areas, and in mailmerge manager (German: "series print manager") it says "Layout and data source ready for use". Now I want to see a previev of my envelope using the first and then the next address rows from the Excel file according to the specified column headers «.» in the variable area. Help says to click the preview button (similar to «ABC») in the mailmerge tool bar, but this is gray and dead. In the mailmerge manager, the Execute button is gray and useless too. I can print with the correct layout, but only get the column headers «.» on the envelope. Where did I go wrong? Many thanks in advance flowe |
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mailmerge preview button grayed out
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
It sounds like you do not have any merge fields in the mailmerge main document. Is there something between the and does it match the names of the fields in the data source. Somewhat belated, I would like to thank Doug Robins for his answer. I solved the problem and executed the job - so the problem ceased to be one. I don't know what has been the reason that it didn't and then did work. Kind regards flowe |
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