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I am still reading the thread.

My workaround came with creating an access database and putting one
table in it and linking to that table. That allowed us to use the same
data (after some converting...) and change it directly from word2007.

It is my presumption that this works because it opens the access
database as a linked file rather than a read-only access file. Since
Access inherently locks the file once it is open it prevents others from
accessing it at the same time, so i think that it has prevented the
"read-only" issue.

KNDG99

Peter Jamieson wrote:
In case you are still reading this thread, I have now been contacted by the
right people: the issue is known and being investigated. Whether and when
that might result in a fix I cannot tell you.

Peter Jamieson

"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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FWIW, today, after a couple of prods, I eventually had a response from a
"Support Professional", which was to contact "Professional Support".

I tried to contact "Professional Support" here in the UK, but apprarently
they only operate between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. The telephonist expertly (I
mean, really smoothly - very impressive!) ignored my suggestion that
perhaps they weren't really "professional".

I hope I don't eventually find myself in front of a hanging judge :-)

Peter Jamieson

"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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FWIW I experience this too. It makes no difference whether the mail merge
main document or data source is .doc or .docx, it doesn't appear to be a
permissions-related thing, and if the mail merge main document is located
on the network share, Word gives you the wrong name for the document when
it pops up its message. It doesn't make any difference whether you use
the shar's UNC name or a drive letter. The impression I have is that Word
is keeping the original open, then making a local copy, then failing to
overwrite the original because it's already open, although that's not
what the error message says.

There doesn't appear to be a workaround except "move your data source to
your local disk".

I've submitted a support incident. Last time I did that it took several
weeks or months for a credible response but I live in hope...

Peter Jamieson

wrote in message
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I have two word documents (originally created in word 2000) one is the
form and the other is the data contents.

When ever I change the data, through the edit recipients wizard, and
then close the document, it asks me to save the data source [expected
notification]. When I select "YES" to save the data source, I get a
message that the data source is read-only. I have followed the
directions in the help menu. This has not corrected the issue. The file
itself is NOT a read-only file, it is; however, on a network share.

Matt