Are you really executing the mailmerge to a new document, or just viewing
the result for that one record?

If you do execute the mailmerge to a new document, there will be no link to
the datasource and you will not get that prompt.

If you still maintain that you are executing the mailmerge to a new
document, press Alt+F9 and tell us what you see where the data from the
record appeared in the new document.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"WordHazIt" wrote in message
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In Word 2003 I perform a MailMerge to a new document and save the new
document. An access database is the data source, which I perform a query
to
filter one record for the MailMerge.

Here's the problem: when I reopen the new document it prompts if I want to
open the database. How can I avoid this?