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Using Word 2003, Windows 2000 Professional. Someone set up a main document
(letter) in Word and a data file in Excel. The data file changes each time
(different notices to different people). Is there any benefit to having both
files in Word instead of one in each - or isn't there any difference.

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It could be argued that Word is happiest with its merge data stored in a
Word table; but it will quite happily merge from a variety of formats
including Excel, so provided you don't have any odd formatting issues
related to your Excel data source, I would leave it as it stands.

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dp wrote:
Using Word 2003, Windows 2000 Professional. Someone set up a main
document (letter) in Word and a data file in Excel. The data file
changes each time (different notices to different people). Is there
any benefit to having both files in Word instead of one in each - or
isn't there any difference.



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Thank you!

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It could be argued that Word is happiest with its merge data stored in a
Word table; but it will quite happily merge from a variety of formats
including Excel, so provided you don't have any odd formatting issues
related to your Excel data source, I would leave it as it stands.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



dp wrote:
Using Word 2003, Windows 2000 Professional. Someone set up a main
document (letter) in Word and a data file in Excel. The data file
changes each time (different notices to different people). Is there
any benefit to having both files in Word instead of one in each - or
isn't there any difference.




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