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I'm trying to create an address labels document using data from my website.
I've created a text file online but when I type the URL it says "document name is not valid, check the path etc etc". When I save the file to my PC it works file. If i load the URL as a new document itself it works fine, but using it as a datasource it doesn't. |
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That's correct - Word simply cannot use an Internet URL as a data source. It
needs a file that it can access through the Windows file system or via the Windows network. Even if you do something like put your data in a SQL database such as MySQL on your website, you will have to have either a .udl file or .odc file, accessible via the Windows file system/Windows network, with the necessary connection info. or an ODBC DSN to use the data as a merge data source. Peter Jamieson "Gav" wrote in message ... I'm trying to create an address labels document using data from my website. I've created a text file online but when I type the URL it says "document name is not valid, check the path etc etc". When I save the file to my PC it works file. If i load the URL as a new document itself it works fine, but using it as a datasource it doesn't. |
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