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File Permissions error when Mail Merging in Word 2007
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 |
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File Permissions error when Mail Merging in Word 2007
To save changes to the data source, open the Word document with the table
using FileOpen, make the changes and then save it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message news 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 |
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File Permissions error when Mail Merging in Word 2007
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 ... To save changes to the data source, open the Word document with the table using FileOpen, make the changes and then save it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message news 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 |
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File Permissions error when Mail Merging in Word 2007
Add the original Mail Merge Helper to the Quick Access Toolbar and then use
that to edit the data source in the same way in which you did it in Word 2000. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message ... 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 ... To save changes to the data source, open the Word document with the table using FileOpen, make the changes and then save it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message news 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 |
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File Permissions error when Mail Merging in Word 2007
That's a fantastic tip, Doug.
Thanks Evi "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Add the original Mail Merge Helper to the Quick Access Toolbar and then use that to edit the data source in the same way in which you did it in Word 2000. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message ... 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 ... To save changes to the data source, open the Word document with the table using FileOpen, make the changes and then save it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Evi" wrote in message news 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 |
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