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invalid merge fields with word 2003, foxpro 9
I am having trouble doing mail merges within foxpro 9. There are three
separate documents involved here, linked to three different foxpro tables with ODBC. When I open these documents in Word by itself, it is able to merge all of them, no errors. When I try to do this programmaticaly or with the mail merge wizard in foxpro, strangely enough, only one of the documents merges and two of them do not, and a ton of 'invalid merge field' errors pop up and fields replaced with __M and whatnot. And this problem popped up only after switching to word 2003. Do I need to do something differently with word, like change a certain setting in it? Or is this not a problem with word? |
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invalid merge fields with word 2003, foxpro 9
What type of fields are in the different tables? If you change the
fieldtypes to the same types as in your "good" table, is it working? I have found, that sometime also Excel has problems to get VFP-Data per OLE and I will recieve strange errors based on some data in the tables. best regards Wolfgang |
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Have you applied the registry change in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825765/en-us ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Daniel Williams" wrote in message ... I am having trouble doing mail merges within foxpro 9. There are three separate documents involved here, linked to three different foxpro tables with ODBC. When I open these documents in Word by itself, it is able to merge all of them, no errors. When I try to do this programmaticaly or with the mail merge wizard in foxpro, strangely enough, only one of the documents merges and two of them do not, and a ton of 'invalid merge field' errors pop up and fields replaced with __M and whatnot. And this problem popped up only after switching to word 2003. Do I need to do something differently with word, like change a certain setting in it? Or is this not a problem with word? |
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