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Mail merge with relative path
Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need
to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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Mail merge with relative path
The merge should be able to find the data if it is in the same folder as the
merge document. Have you tried it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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Mail merge with relative path
Yes, I have tried this. For example:
C:\Mail\Source.mdb and C:\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I move the Mail folder to c:\otherFolder, it would be: c:\otherFolder\Mail\Source.mdb c:\otherFolder\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I double-click the MailMerge.doc, the Word will ask for the c:\Mail\MailMerge.doc What can I do to solve this? If you have a example, please I would be glad if you send this to . "Graham Mayor" wrote: The merge should be able to find the data if it is in the same folder as the merge document. Have you tried it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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The problem with that is the way the merge connects to mdb files created by
the merge wizard. In this case from the mailmerge helper (see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm ) edit the data file - break the link when prompted and Word will create a Word table containing the data. Save it with a suitable name. Keep the two documents together in the same folder and the merge document should find its data without prompting. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Yes, I have tried this. For example: C:\Mail\Source.mdb and C:\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I move the Mail folder to c:\otherFolder, it would be: c:\otherFolder\Mail\Source.mdb c:\otherFolder\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I double-click the MailMerge.doc, the Word will ask for the c:\Mail\MailMerge.doc What can I do to solve this? If you have a example, please I would be glad if you send this to . "Graham Mayor" wrote: The merge should be able to find the data if it is in the same folder as the merge document. Have you tried it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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I think I understood. The relative path only occurs if the source is a Word
table... Thanks for the information, I activated the database toolbar, put the MDB data to a table with the database commands, I saved in a file and did the mail merge. I moved the documents to another folder and it works. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The problem with that is the way the merge connects to mdb files created by the merge wizard. In this case from the mailmerge helper (see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm ) edit the data file - break the link when prompted and Word will create a Word table containing the data. Save it with a suitable name. Keep the two documents together in the same folder and the merge document should find its data without prompting. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Yes, I have tried this. For example: C:\Mail\Source.mdb and C:\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I move the Mail folder to c:\otherFolder, it would be: c:\otherFolder\Mail\Source.mdb c:\otherFolder\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I double-click the MailMerge.doc, the Word will ask for the c:\Mail\MailMerge.doc What can I do to solve this? If you have a example, please I would be glad if you send this to . "Graham Mayor" wrote: The merge should be able to find the data if it is in the same folder as the merge document. Have you tried it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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Mail merge with relative path
See the address: http://www.knowhow.com/DownloadWord.aspx
Download and extract the zip file (ex: inside a "Sample" folder). See the sample exmerg2.doc, close the doc. Try now rename the "Sample" folder to "Sample2". Reopen the exmerg2.doc. It has a relative reference to the .mdb source. How did he get? "Anderflash" wrote: I think I understood. The relative path only occurs if the source is a Word table... Thanks for the information, I activated the database toolbar, put the MDB data to a table with the database commands, I saved in a file and did the mail merge. I moved the documents to another folder and it works. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The problem with that is the way the merge connects to mdb files created by the merge wizard. In this case from the mailmerge helper (see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm ) edit the data file - break the link when prompted and Word will create a Word table containing the data. Save it with a suitable name. Keep the two documents together in the same folder and the merge document should find its data without prompting. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Yes, I have tried this. For example: C:\Mail\Source.mdb and C:\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I move the Mail folder to c:\otherFolder, it would be: c:\otherFolder\Mail\Source.mdb c:\otherFolder\Mail\MailMerge.doc If I double-click the MailMerge.doc, the Word will ask for the c:\Mail\MailMerge.doc What can I do to solve this? If you have a example, please I would be glad if you send this to . "Graham Mayor" wrote: The merge should be able to find the data if it is in the same folder as the merge document. Have you tried it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anderflash wrote: Does someone know how I put relative path in a source to a mail merge? I need to move the source and the mail merge document in another directories, but I keep the source at the same folder of the mail merge. Thanks for the attention. |
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