Thanks Doug.
Does that mean that I can't enter my data while my Merge letter is open?
I was expecting to be able to do what I do in Word from Office2000 and even
Office XP- once I'd created my table in a document and set up my mailmerge
letter, connecting it to my doc. with the table, I could open my Merge
letter, press Edit Recipient List and a convenient form would open up.
Certainly easier to use than trying to type the data directly into a Word
table.
Evi
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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To save changes to the data source, open the Word document with the table
using FileOpen, make the changes and then save it.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Evi" wrote in message
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I was using Office 2007 in Vista.
I put a table into a Word document and gave each column the name of a
field
I wanted in my Mail Merge letter. I typed some data into the second row
of
my table.
I saved the document in the My Date Source folder in Documents.
I created the letter I wanted to mail merge, I selected my word document
with the table as my data source, it seemed to be working.
But
When I tried to save it, it told me that I could not save it because of
File
Permissions.
This is a machine with the user having Administrative rights. The My
Data
Source folder is on that machine and not on a server.
I was only able to create a mail merge by using the Wizard and letting
it
create a data source in Access (Outlook was not suitable for the type of
mailmerge which I was doing)
What went wrong?
Evi