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Formatting mail Merge Hell
I recently changed from XP to 2003 and now all my mail merge documents are a
problem. I have tried the switches with limited success and changing 200 Merged fields in one document one by one it turning out to be quite the challenge. I still can not get the document to print the two decimal places required for currency. Zip codes are a challenge. Our item list is a varried list of Alpha, numeric, - and /. I have had limited success with some of the other switch entries. Does anyone else feel that Microsoft has taken a simple easy to use feature and made it so complicated that you have to be a software engineer to use this featue? |
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Formatting mail Merge Hell
The simplest way to revert to previous behaviour is generally to check
Word|Tools|Options|General|Confirm conversion at Open, re-connect to your Excel data source and choose the DDE option when offered. I suspect you must have been using that in Word XP as you would probably be having the same problems. Does anyone else feel that Microsoft has taken a simple easy to use feature and made it so complicated that you have to be a software engineer to use this featue? I certainly thing some changes to the relevant OLEDB providers would have avoided a lot of these problems. Peter Jamieson "Kelly" wrote in message ... I recently changed from XP to 2003 and now all my mail merge documents are a problem. I have tried the switches with limited success and changing 200 Merged fields in one document one by one it turning out to be quite the challenge. I still can not get the document to print the two decimal places required for currency. Zip codes are a challenge. Our item list is a varried list of Alpha, numeric, - and /. I have had limited success with some of the other switch entries. Does anyone else feel that Microsoft has taken a simple easy to use feature and made it so complicated that you have to be a software engineer to use this featue? |
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