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I have been using Excel as the data source for mail merge in Word with no
problems. I have two excel files. One works perfectly well but the other is
now coming up with "Word was unable to open the Data Source" Any
suggestions welcome
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Which version of Word/Excel?

If the "bad" workbook is simple enough (e.g. no formulas, just data, try
exporting the sheet(s) to .csv format and importing them into a completely
new workbook.

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I have been using Excel as the data source for mail merge in Word with no
problems. I have two excel files. One works perfectly well but the other
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now coming up with "Word was unable to open the Data Source" Any
suggestions welcome


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