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..tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them.
Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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Creating .tmp files is part of Word's genetic coding, and their generation
cannot be stopped... except of course by not using Word at all. ;-) ..tmp files are how Word manages the pieces of files as you work with them. Think of them as pieces of scrap paper, without which Word could not do what it does. When Word closes a file, the associated tmp files are deleted (in theory). When Word crashes, tmp files often get left over. The leftover bits can be deleted (although... when I go on a delete-athon, I usually focus only on files that are at least a few days old, just to make sure I'm not zapping something that might be a last grasp at recovering something I might lose. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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That's not what temporary files are for - and you cannot stop them being
produced. Many applications produce temporary files for a variety of purposes. Leave them alone! If they are not removed when the application is closed (usually through a fault condition) then you can remove them - see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dave wrote: .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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Dave wrote:
.tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. In addition to what Herb and Graham have told you, here's one more bit of advice: Don't store documents on the desktop and open them from there. As explained in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211632, there are certain kinds of temp files that must be stored in the same folder as the open document, and if that's the desktop then the temp files will be in your face. Store the documents in any subfolder on the disk, and the temp files will be out of sight unless you happen to go looking for them. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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The .tmp files Word creates are automatically delete, unless you experience
a crash. If after you exit Word you still see temp files (that Word creates) then something is preventing their deletion, such as you may not have the necessary permissions enabled. Otherwise, if they are deleted automatically then, as others have noted, this is "normal" behavior. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and
use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. Thanks again, "Beth Melton" wrote: The .tmp files Word creates are automatically delete, unless you experience a crash. If after you exit Word you still see temp files (that Word creates) then something is preventing their deletion, such as you may not have the necessary permissions enabled. Otherwise, if they are deleted automatically then, as others have noted, this is "normal" behavior. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than
temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. Thanks again, "Beth Melton" wrote: The .tmp files Word creates are automatically delete, unless you experience a crash. If after you exit Word you still see temp files (that Word creates) then something is preventing their deletion, such as you may not have the necessary permissions enabled. Otherwise, if they are deleted automatically then, as others have noted, this is "normal" behavior. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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I have a lot of Excel data sources that I connect to with DDE, and I find
that when I go to save and close the mail merge main document, I am asked if I want to save the data source as well. I always do, because it saves the selection of recipients so that I can check to see whom I sent things to (I don't save the merged document in most cases). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. Thanks again, "Beth Melton" wrote: The .tmp files Word creates are automatically delete, unless you experience a crash. If after you exit Word you still see temp files (that Word creates) then something is preventing their deletion, such as you may not have the necessary permissions enabled. Otherwise, if they are deleted automatically then, as others have noted, this is "normal" behavior. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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I orginally created my data base using Office 2000 and Word. It was the old
merge tool bar drop down, not a wizard, so my data base is a word document. I now have office 2007 and Word that goes with it, I am still using the Word 2000 data base file as my source. Does this help? "Beth Melton" wrote: I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. Thanks again, "Beth Melton" wrote: The .tmp files Word creates are automatically delete, unless you experience a crash. If after you exit Word you still see temp files (that Word creates) then something is preventing their deletion, such as you may not have the necessary permissions enabled. Otherwise, if they are deleted automatically then, as others have noted, this is "normal" behavior. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... .tmp files are a real pain and I would like word to stop generating them. Does anyone know of a way to stop word from generating .tmp files when I open an existing file? Is there a registry key to stop them? I am not worried about losing information in an open document if something should happen, which is what I understand the .tmp file is for. |
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Yes, additional information is always helpful. :-)
Instead of changing the method you are using to connect to your data, I would copy/paste the data in your data file to an Excel workbook and use it instead. I've verified it can be updated in Word 2007 and you might find managing your data in Excel to be more flexible than using a Word table. All you have to do is create a new Excel workbook, open your data file in Word, select the entire table, then in Excel make sure the active cell is A1 and paste the copied data. Save and close your Excel workbook. Then in your main document, on the Mailings tab, click Select Recipients/Use Existing List and select your saved Excel workbook. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... I orginally created my data base using Office 2000 and Word. It was the old merge tool bar drop down, not a wizard, so my data base is a word document. I now have office 2007 and Word that goes with it, I am still using the Word 2000 data base file as my source. Does this help? "Beth Melton" wrote: I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. |
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I will give that a try and let you know. Thanks for your help
"Beth Melton" wrote: Yes, additional information is always helpful. :-) Instead of changing the method you are using to connect to your data, I would copy/paste the data in your data file to an Excel workbook and use it instead. I've verified it can be updated in Word 2007 and you might find managing your data in Excel to be more flexible than using a Word table. All you have to do is create a new Excel workbook, open your data file in Word, select the entire table, then in Excel make sure the active cell is A1 and paste the copied data. Save and close your Excel workbook. Then in your main document, on the Mailings tab, click Select Recipients/Use Existing List and select your saved Excel workbook. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... I orginally created my data base using Office 2000 and Word. It was the old merge tool bar drop down, not a wizard, so my data base is a word document. I now have office 2007 and Word that goes with it, I am still using the Word 2000 data base file as my source. Does this help? "Beth Melton" wrote: I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. |
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I finally gave it a try and re-created the data base Excel, as you asked me
to do below. What happens is when I use a quick button to edit a field during a merge I get a window that asks me if I "want to break the link" with the file. With no other options I say yes. It seems to complie for about 30 seconds then asks me to save the word document in my database directory, which I do not understand? This is all too tedious and time consuming. BTW this tmp process is also affecting me when I email a file through outlook and then I try to move the file within explorer. It says I cannot move the file because the file is being used by another program. Even though outlook may have sent the file I have to close outlook then move the file. ..tmp files are my enemy, lol. Thanks for all your help. "Beth Melton" wrote: Yes, additional information is always helpful. :-) Instead of changing the method you are using to connect to your data, I would copy/paste the data in your data file to an Excel workbook and use it instead. I've verified it can be updated in Word 2007 and you might find managing your data in Excel to be more flexible than using a Word table. All you have to do is create a new Excel workbook, open your data file in Word, select the entire table, then in Excel make sure the active cell is A1 and paste the copied data. Save and close your Excel workbook. Then in your main document, on the Mailings tab, click Select Recipients/Use Existing List and select your saved Excel workbook. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... I orginally created my data base using Office 2000 and Word. It was the old merge tool bar drop down, not a wizard, so my data base is a word document. I now have office 2007 and Word that goes with it, I am still using the Word 2000 data base file as my source. Does this help? "Beth Melton" wrote: I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. |
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Strange. I don't encounter this -- it works like previous versions for me. I
can edit the Excel data and am prompted to save the changes when I close the main document. Are you saving in the old file format or new file format? Are you using Windows XP or Vista? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs "Dave" wrote in message ... I finally gave it a try and re-created the data base Excel, as you asked me to do below. What happens is when I use a quick button to edit a field during a merge I get a window that asks me if I "want to break the link" with the file. With no other options I say yes. It seems to complie for about 30 seconds then asks me to save the word document in my database directory, which I do not understand? This is all too tedious and time consuming. BTW this tmp process is also affecting me when I email a file through outlook and then I try to move the file within explorer. It says I cannot move the file because the file is being used by another program. Even though outlook may have sent the file I have to close outlook then move the file. .tmp files are my enemy, lol. Thanks for all your help. "Beth Melton" wrote: Yes, additional information is always helpful. :-) Instead of changing the method you are using to connect to your data, I would copy/paste the data in your data file to an Excel workbook and use it instead. I've verified it can be updated in Word 2007 and you might find managing your data in Excel to be more flexible than using a Word table. All you have to do is create a new Excel workbook, open your data file in Word, select the entire table, then in Excel make sure the active cell is A1 and paste the copied data. Save and close your Excel workbook. Then in your main document, on the Mailings tab, click Select Recipients/Use Existing List and select your saved Excel workbook. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Dave" wrote in message ... I orginally created my data base using Office 2000 and Word. It was the old merge tool bar drop down, not a wizard, so my data base is a word document. I now have office 2007 and Word that goes with it, I am still using the Word 2000 data base file as my source. Does this help? "Beth Melton" wrote: I believe this has more to do with the data connection to your database than temp files. Word now uses a new method, (called OLEDB), by default to connect to a data source for mail merge. Word 2000 uses a method called DDE.. In a nut shell, this connection allows Word to communicate directly with your data file (which is more efficient) rather than through the application as it did in the past using a DDE connection method. The fact that your database may be opening as read-only may indeed be a bug. (I don't know, this isn't something I've investigated.) What you might be able to do is use the DDE method to connect to your data source which may allow you to make your edits and save them. However, we need to know the version of Word you are using so we can provide you with the necessary steps. "Dave" wrote in message ... Thank you all for replying. My situation is when I open a merge document and use my Word based data base it opens a .tmp file. If I edit the data base, which word allows and has qucik buttons to do it by during the merge, and then close the template I cannot save the changed data base file because it says it is open. The error is that it is a read only file, which it is not. It is just that Word created a .tmp file so it thinks it open somewhere else. So I have to close without saving changes, a real pain for my application plus I cannot use features Word has to offer. This did not happen in Word 2000 and the folks on the Merge help page said it is a know problem, they thought it might get fixed sometime. I was looking for a near term solution. |
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