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Mail Merge Word 2007 to 2003
I currently use my personal laptop at work. The issue we have run into is
that I have Office 2007 and work has Office 2003. I created a Word document and have been saving the Word Document as a 97-03 or whatever file. The thing is that when I email the mail merge forms (the .doc and .mdb) files to work computers, the mdb file will not load in Word. I think it may have to do with the fact that the mdb file is 07 oriented and 03 Word doesn't know what to do with it... any suggestions? |
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Mail Merge Word 2007 to 2003
If it's actually a .mdb it is 2003 oriented - Access 2007 uses a different
OOXML extension altogether (.accdb). It sounds more like the systems "at work" don't have Access or a suitable alternative. Word can't open the data file - it relies on the availability of the associated application to run in the background (unless the data is in a Word or text format). Use Access to export the table/query as a text file... Or better yet, do the merge yourself as a new Word file saved as a .doc & send them the finished product. You can actually d the merge from within Word or from Access. HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/6/08 9:39 AM, in article , "Anthony" wrote: I currently use my personal laptop at work. The issue we have run into is that I have Office 2007 and work has Office 2003. I created a Word document and have been saving the Word Document as a 97-03 or whatever file. The thing is that when I email the mail merge forms (the .doc and .mdb) files to work computers, the mdb file will not load in Word. I think it may have to do with the fact that the mdb file is 07 oriented and 03 Word doesn't know what to do with it... any suggestions? |
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The mdb format used by mail merge is a bit of a curiosity. If created by
Word 2007, it appears to need Access 2007 on the PC in order to re-open it, though it is not a true Access 2007 file; however there is a workaround. In Office 2007 add the old Mailmerge helper to the QAT http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm. Use this to edit the data source attached to your merge document. This entails breaking the link. When prompted save the data file as a Word 97-2003 document. The resulting document is a Word table that you can use in place of the mdb data source and will work with both Word versions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anthony wrote: I currently use my personal laptop at work. The issue we have run into is that I have Office 2007 and work has Office 2003. I created a Word document and have been saving the Word Document as a 97-03 or whatever file. The thing is that when I email the mail merge forms (the .doc and .mdb) files to work computers, the mdb file will not load in Word. I think it may have to do with the fact that the mdb file is 07 oriented and 03 Word doesn't know what to do with it... any suggestions? |
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Mail Merge Word 2007 to 2003
I greatly prefer to create all my data sources directly as either Word
tables or Excel sheets. I don't think I've ever actually used one of the ..mdb data sources used by Word 2002 and above. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The mdb format used by mail merge is a bit of a curiosity. If created by Word 2007, it appears to need Access 2007 on the PC in order to re-open it, though it is not a true Access 2007 file; however there is a workaround. In Office 2007 add the old Mailmerge helper to the QAT http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm. Use this to edit the data source attached to your merge document. This entails breaking the link. When prompted save the data file as a Word 97-2003 document. The resulting document is a Word table that you can use in place of the mdb data source and will work with both Word versions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Anthony wrote: I currently use my personal laptop at work. The issue we have run into is that I have Office 2007 and work has Office 2003. I created a Word document and have been saving the Word Document as a 97-03 or whatever file. The thing is that when I email the mail merge forms (the .doc and .mdb) files to work computers, the mdb file will not load in Word. I think it may have to do with the fact that the mdb file is 07 oriented and 03 Word doesn't know what to do with it... any suggestions? |
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