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Using Office 2003, attempting to have multiple users:
1. Use same mail merge template
2. Store data source (access database) on a shared drive.

Running into issues with word document that it can only be opened in READ
only. Can't multiple users access the same word document and utilize the
same datasource simutaneously?
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The document should be saved as a template (.dot file) and then the users
should select New from the File menu in Word and select that Template as the
basis for the document that they want to create.

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Using Office 2003, attempting to have multiple users:
1. Use same mail merge template
2. Store data source (access database) on a shared drive.

Running into issues with word document that it can only be opened in READ
only. Can't multiple users access the same word document and utilize the
same datasource simutaneously?



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