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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007.
In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista
Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
Thank for responding Doug. I do not get the dialog:
Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv I expect this to come up, but is does not. Even after I have manually made the connection to the CSV file (and seen the data come up in the Word document when I merge), it does not seem to save the connection. For when I save the Word file (which has been successfully connected to the CSV data source), I do not get the above message when I reopen the file, nor is the CSV data file connected to the Word document. The CSV file resides in a subfolder of My Documents. Hence it is not a long network path. Any other ideas? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
Actually Doug the dialog:
Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv does appear, but when I click "OK" it them tells me it cannot find the file. If I browse out to the CSV file and select it, it gives an error and will not connect. I tried this on another system that is running Word 2007 with Windows XP. I got the same problem. Hence it is reproducible and appears to be inhernet with Word 2007. What now??? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path
filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Actually Doug the dialog: Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv does appear, but when I click "OK" it them tells me it cannot find the file. If I browse out to the CSV file and select it, it gives an error and will not connect. I tried this on another system that is running Word 2007 with Windows XP. I got the same problem. Hence it is reproducible and appears to be inhernet with Word 2007. What now??? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
No long path name. The file resides in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Thank You Letters\File.csv and similar locations on other systems tested. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Actually Doug the dialog: Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv does appear, but when I click "OK" it them tells me it cannot find the file. If I browse out to the CSV file and select it, it gives an error and will not connect. I tried this on another system that is running Word 2007 with Windows XP. I got the same problem. Hence it is reproducible and appears to be inhernet with Word 2007. What now??? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
That does not look like a Vista file path to me.
On my Vista machine, the default file path for the data source is: C:\Users\Doug\Documents\My Data Sources The equivalent on a machine running Windows XP would be: C:\Documents and Settings\Doug Robbins\My Documents\My Data Sources -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... No long path name. The file resides in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Thank You Letters\File.csv and similar locations on other systems tested. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Actually Doug the dialog: Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv does appear, but when I click "OK" it them tells me it cannot find the file. If I browse out to the CSV file and select it, it gives an error and will not connect. I tried this on another system that is running Word 2007 with Windows XP. I got the same problem. Hence it is reproducible and appears to be inhernet with Word 2007. What now??? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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Problem Connecting to a CSV File in Word 2007
Fellow MVP, Peter Jamieson, posted this to another forum. I am not sure if
any of it is applicable to your situation, but as Peter says at the end of the post - "Worth a try." Quote What happens is that when you connect via OLE DB in the first instance, and save the document, the OLE DB connect string is set up correctly and saved. If you re-open the document when that data source is no longer there (e.g. has been moved) you should see: a. the SQL Warning b. the OLE DB dtaalink dialog box, which will probably display the existing path. So you change the path, and the document works OK. You are now at point (A). So you save the mail merge main document to save the modified path. Unfortunately, for reasons I can only guess at, when you get to point (A), the Mailmerge data structures still reference the /old/ path. You may be able to see this if you try that print ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.ConnectString statement in VBA's immediate window again. Also print ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Name and print ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Tablename have SQL that just references the worksheet, not the workbook pathname. So when you save the document, the new pathname is not saved. My guess is that this is because when Word connects via OLE DB, it uses a thing called the Office Data Source Object (ODSO) and that in this situation, the prompts are handled entirely by ODSO and are never "handed back" to Word (for wahatever reason. Because Word VBA has no mechanism to get a reference to the ODSO object, it's not possible to discover what's going on inside it. (Well, OK, I guess someone who knows how to get the ODSO object's address some other way could do it). So I think what you probably need to do is... a. open the document, and jump through the usual hoops to connect to your data source (doesn't matter how). b. detach the data source altogether - e.g. select "Normal Word Document" using the first button on the MailMerge toolbar c. select the Mailmerge document type you want again d. re-attach the data source in the usual way e. save the mail merge main document f. close & re-open - you should "just" get the SQL Warning dialog. The main snag with this sequence is that for certain types of mail merge main document, step (c) will trigger additional dialogs that you could probably do without, e.g. if it's Labels or Envelopes merge. The only way I can see to avoid this is to use VBA, e.g. Sub reconnect() With ActiveDocument.MailMerge ' as far as I know, .Close is new in Word 2003. It seems to have the desired effect of removing the existing data source ' without changing the type of mail merge main document, whereas the only way to disconnect UI (new or old) is to change ' the Mail megre main document type to "Normal Word Document". .DataSource.Close ' open the source you want .OpenDataSource "C:\Documents and Settings\Suzanne\My Documents\Excel Files\Rotary\Attendance.xls " End With End Sub Then you need to save the mail merge main document. Worth a try, anyway... Unquote -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... No long path name. The file resides in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Thank You Letters\File.csv and similar locations on other systems tested. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Actually Doug the dialog: Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv does appear, but when I click "OK" it them tells me it cannot find the file. If I browse out to the CSV file and select it, it gives an error and will not connect. I tried this on another system that is running Word 2007 with Windows XP. I got the same problem. Hence it is reproducible and appears to be inhernet with Word 2007. What now??? -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I am unable to replicate that problem when using Word 2007 on Vista Business. I believe that it is unlikely that Vista Ultimate would make a difference. Are you getting the message Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM [Drive:\Path\FileName].csv Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue? Where is the datasource located? Is it on a network with a long path filename? -- 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 "Chaplain Doug" wrote in message ... Windows Vista Ultimate. Office 2007 Professional. Word 2007. In Word 2003 I can connect my document to a .CSV file as my data source and it remembers and maintains the data connection when I save the file and open it later. However, in Word 2007 when I connect to a .CSV file as the data source and save the file, the next time I open the file it is no longer connected to the .CSV file. I have to go through all the steps to connect to a data source again. If I use a regular Excel file (.xls) I do not have this problem. I need to be able to have this work for a .CSV file. Why is this simple function not working in Word 2007? Is it a known bug? How Can I fix this issue??? Thanks for the help. -- Dr. Doug Pruiett Good News Jail & Prison Ministry www.goodnewsjail.org |
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