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Mailmerge toolbar does not display automatically
I recently "upgraded" from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Previously the
mailmerge (MM) toolbar would automatically display when opening a MM document and cancel itself when closing the document. I have one document where the toolbar does behave as previously but all others (old and new) do not have auto display of the toolbar when opening. Can anyone explain what is happening with this one document and how can I get all MM documents to behave this way? |
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Mailmerge toolbar does not display automatically
Auto display is certainly not the norm in Word 2002/2003.
What may have happened with your one document where autodisplay still occurs is that it may be attached to a template that has the mail merge toolbar displayed, or something along those lines (I haven't checked, but it doesn't seem an unreasonable hypothesis) FWIW, these days, I tend to leave the MM toolbar on all the time despite the loss of a bit of "screen real estate" Peter Jamieson "grahambread" wrote in message ups.com... I recently "upgraded" from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Previously the mailmerge (MM) toolbar would automatically display when opening a MM document and cancel itself when closing the document. I have one document where the toolbar does behave as previously but all others (old and new) do not have auto display of the toolbar when opening. Can anyone explain what is happening with this one document and how can I get all MM documents to behave this way? |
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Mailmerge toolbar does not display automatically
Hi Grahambread,
how can I get all MM documents to behave this way? It is possible with a macro. A bit of sample codes is posted in the Word 2002/2003 section of my website. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Mailmerge toolbar does not display automatically
Hi Peter and Cindy
Thanks for your input. I think I have now solved the problem and offer this to all who may be interested. The essential tool to make this work seems to be the 'Mail Merge Helper' (MMH) dialogue, which doesn't get used by default in Word2003. In short if you use this tool to create a new or modify an existing MM document it will subsequently display the MM toolbar when opening the doc and remove it when closing. What I have now done is to install the MMH button on my standard toolbar. You can find it in Tools/Customize/Commands/All Commands/. The button remains 'active' even if the current doc is not MM. Open a new blank document and click on the MMH button to get the dialogue to create a MM document (as we used to in Word 2000). Once you have linked to your data source the MM toolbar will behave in the 'old' way. This has worked for me with new docs and with old ones that previously had not automatically displayed the toolbar in Word2003 but will do once I reconnect to the data sorce using the MMH dialogue and then save the doc. Best wishes Graham Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: Hi Grahambread, how can I get all MM documents to behave this way? It is possible with a macro. A bit of sample codes is posted in the Word 2002/2003 section of my website. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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