[Stew]

Doug,



Thanks.

- Stew


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I can view that form on top of a IE7 Web Page. Give me an email address and
I will send you a screen shot of it.

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"Stew" wrote in message
news
From Word XP/2003 click on 'Mail Merge Recipients' and a window opens - as
a
matter of interest this window can not be viewed independently either now
as
clicking on the Word icon from the taskbar shows this as the active window
plus the Word document behind it. From this screen you then click on
'Edit'
and you have the 'Data Form'


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

What exactly do you mean by data form?

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"Stew" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately I have tried that setting already.

As the dialog box (data form) is from the same Word session, this does
not
seem to change anything.

I do appreciate your suggestions though.




"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Click on the Office button, then on Word Options, then go to the
Advanced
item and uncheck the box against the "Show all windows in the
Taskbar"
in
the display section of the dialog. For Word XP/2003, that setting is
somewhere under ToolsOptions. Sorry I don't remember where and don't
have
access to a machine running either of those versions at the moment.

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"Stew" wrote in message
...
I have tried this and the Word window can be minimised, but in this
case,
the
3rd level window (the data form dialog box) is the only window that
needs
to
be viewed. Before upgrading to IE7, this window could be viewed and
was
treated as its own window, without the rest of the Word windows
(maximised
or
minimised) and could therefore be selected simply by clicking on
Word
from
the taskbar. It was as if this was the only active window in Word
and
until
this form was completed and closed, the previous level form (mail
merge
recipients) was not then shown again.

This made data entry perfect as you could type directly into the
form
from
what was displayed on your browser (intranet application).

I really don't know what has changed during the IE7 install but it
seems
to
have removed this function.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Click on the button one to the left of the White X on a Red
background
in
the top right corner of the Word screen and reduce the size of the
Word
window so that it is not maximised.

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"Stew" wrote in message
...
Doug,

many thanks for your reply. It doesn't mater what browser page
you
pop
the
window over, it is more of a case of not being able to take the
top
level
word window (mail merge data form) and have that displayed over
any
other
window. In our case yes, we do use an intranet page displayed via
IE7
and
we
used to be able to view the word form over this with IE6. I
cannot
actually
view the word data form over any window now (explorer etc.) as
clicking
on
the word data form from the taskbar maximises the whole of the
Word
window,
not just the top level data form.

The strange thing is that this only stopped working immediately
after
installing IE7 on quite a number of PCs. I am not sure if
upgrading
from
IE6
to IE7 changes some other global windows explorer viewing type
setting
but
I
have compared all of the Internet Options on a known working IE6
PC
against
an upgraded one and cannot find any differences. I have also done
the
same
for all the Word settings. The Word mail merge does not use any
code/VB
etc.
it is a standard mail merge and to further test, I have created a
new
mail
merge via the wizard and this too does not allow the data form to
be
positioned independently of the Word window.

I have also posted this on the internet explorer discussion pages
as
I
am
not sure where the problem really stems from.

Many thanks.


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I assume that you are talking about some custom designed browser
page.
If
it is available over the internet, please provide a link to it.
However,
you may need to throw this back into the hands of the person who
designed
the page.

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"Stew" wrote in message
...
Since upgrading to IE7 on a number of PCs, we are now unable
to
move
a
Word
Mail Merge data form independently over a browser screen so
that
it
can
be
completed with data directly copied form another window.

This is the same for both Office XP and 2003 and the PCs are
Windows
XP
SP2
but fully patched for office and windows.

I have uninstalled IE7 on one of the PCs and the function
still
does
not
work but on an identical PC that I have not yet upgraded to
IE7
the
function
still works fine.

When you are on the browser page and you click on Word from
the
taskbar,
the
Word window including the document itself, the mail merge
recipients
form
and
the top level data form appear. These 3 all seem to be treated
as
one
now
but
before the upgrade, I could select just the top level data
form
and
place
it
over a browser window.

I hope this makes sense and any help or guidance will be
greatly
received.