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word 2000 mail merging access
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We have documents in word 2000 that use info from an Access database on a server as the data source for mail merge. The datasources have been saved with each document. One of the computers has Office Professional XP and has no problem with the data source that is saved with each document. The other two machines have word 2000. When you open the document the data source is not there and you have to do the steps to open the data source and then merge. Any one have any info as to why. I have tried everything I can think of. We would like to not have to open the data source everytime. Some versions/installations of Word have problems retaining data sources that aren't saved locally. About the only *reliable* suggestion I can make would be to put an AutoOpen macro in these documents that connects to the data source if it's not available. If you decide to go this route, you will need two sets of documents for the Word 2000 vs. later versions. The object model for connecting a data source changed slightly in Word 2002. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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