Just a few thoughts:
a. the article refers to a prompt, but that's because it is not discussing
the case where the relevant operations are being done programmatically
rather than manually. As far as I can remember the OpenDataSOurce fails
without telling you. However, it may be that with proper error handling you
should be seeing this error reported.
b. when you say "template", do you mean that your Mail Merge Main Document
is a .dot file? If so, have you tried a .doc instead?
c. if you haven't tried it already, I would consider testing similar code
in a slightly simpler situation, e.g. create a test document containg a few
test fields and a macro that issues the same OpenDataSource call, and try
that on one of the non-dev. machines.

Peter Jamieson

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I have a compile that runs on my machine with Office 2002 (XP). I have
not been able to get the application to run on any other machine with
Office 2002 (XP).
I read the indicated article, but this refers to a prompt that I'm not
getting.
The application uses an Access dataase. The application opens a
template document in Word and then feeds a query to mail merge.
The application runs fine with Word 2000. It runs on my machine, and no
where else, with Word 2002 (XP). On other machines with Word 2002, the
template opens and then nothing happens. It just sits there.
Essentially, the mail merge appears to fail to fire.