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Thank you for your advice that seems helpful.
"Peter Jamieson" wrote: By default, Word 2000 connects to Access data using DDE, which has to start Access if it is not already running, then ask it to open your database if it is not already open. If Access displays any dialog boxes during that process, you probably will not see them unless you switch to the Access application (e.g. Alt-Tab until you see Access + the dialog box). Meanwhile, Word looks as if it is doing nothing, then eventually gives up. Common things that will cause a dialog box to display are a. if you have set up a login using password security or workgroup security b. if you are tryuing to connect to a Parameter query in Access. (There may be others). There are several other possible causes (e.g. you may need to uncheck Access-Tools-Options-Advanced-"Ignore DDE requests"). Also, there may be a problem if you have modified Access to display a different name in its Title bar. These all seem quite unlikely to me. If you are actually using ODBC instead of DDE to open your Access database (which you would know about) let us know. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "MACAVITY500" wrote in message ... I am using the Office 2000 premium suite so I have made the database in access and the template in word using a table. "Peter Jamieson" wrote: What type of database are you using? Is it one created from within Word mailmerge? Or, e.g., Excel, Access, a Word Document?...Which version of Word? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "MACAVITY500" wrote in message ... I have recently done a card index file by making a template and then merging with a database. It was very successful! I now want to merge another address book database with a different template but my mail merge helper decides not to respond when I go to get data. i have made a nice template of how I want the names and adresses set out but I cannot get word to open my database. Can anyone help me as I have spent a lot of time making the database especially for a mail merge. Why doesn't it like my database? |
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