[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I have not been able to replicate this problem and have never heard of it
before.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Chris" wrote in message
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Any help/info will be of GREAT use

We have a system programatically linking to Word to create mailmerge
documents. this has always worked fine up to and including 2003. One of
our
customers has recently upgraded to Word 2003 and experienced problems with
a
directory mail merge document .

Upon investigation I have discovered that when a mail merge master
document
has it's datasource attached Word cannot understand what kind of document
it
is and defaults to Form Letters. With it's datasource detached then Word
reads the document correctly

Has anybody else experienced this and have a solution for the problem

Detaching the datasource from all documents is a workaround but messy
Programmatically setting the document type in code (which does work) is
alos not an option since the code handles both Form Letters and
Directories
and does not distinguish between them

again any help gratefully recieved