Recently upgraded to Office 2003 - I had mail merge documents in word that
use a data source from my Access files. When i used them in 2002, once I
saved them in Word 2002 as a word file, the data source connection was
automatically saved. With 2003, every time I bring up the document, even
though I have saved it, it constantly asks me to open the data source - how
do I get the connection to the data source to be saved and automatically open
when I open my document?

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Recently upgraded to Office 2003 - I had mail merge documents in word that
use a data source from my Access files. When i used them in 2002, once I
saved them in Word 2002 as a word file, the data source connection was
automatically saved. With 2003, every time I bring up the document, even
though I have saved it, it constantly asks me to open the data source - how
do I get the connection to the data source to be saved and automatically open
when I open my document?

What is the text of the message you're seeing, exactly? Are you seeing any other
messages? If yes, what are you clicking in those messages?

Is the location of the Acces database on the network, or local on your machine?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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