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Changing default Datasource location
Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you
click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to another folder location? Many thanks |
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Hi ?B?Sm9obg==?=,
Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to another folder location? No, unfortunately, it's not. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Many thanks for letting me know. Bit of an ommission that though!
"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Sm9obg==?=, Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to another folder location? No, unfortunately, it's not. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi ?B?Sm9obg==?=, Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to another folder location? No, unfortunately, it's not. Actually you can change it to any other first level sub folder of My Documents by editing the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\DataServices I normally have mine set to a sub folder called 'Test'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Thanks Graham,
Unfortunately our data sources are kept centrally on our Server. I have managed to edit the registry to default to the top of a mapped network drive (ie by editing the string in the value data field to X:\Databases) but it won't accept a path to a subfolder. (ie X:\Databases\Datasources). Although in any case my prefered path would be: \\Server\workfiles\DATABASES\Datasources But this doesn't work at all, with or without subfolders. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi ?B?Sm9obg==?=, Is it possible to change the default setting for the datasource when you click 'Open Data Source' on the Mail merge tool bar from 'My Data Sources' to another folder location? No, unfortunately, it's not. Actually you can change it to any other first level sub folder of My Documents by editing the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\DataServices I normally have mine set to a sub folder called 'Test'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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