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We are moving folders that have hundreds of documents which have mail merge with a path to the old server and in some cases old drive letters. How do I change the path to reflect the new server or drive letter in the documents that have mail merge?

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Default mail merge documents moving to a new server

To avoid having to re-attach the data source when each document is opened, I
think that before you delete the data source from the old location, you
would have to copy it to the new location so that you could then run a macro
over the documents that extracted from each document the old path and
filename of the data source and then replaced that with the new path and
filename and saved the document.

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We are moving folders that have hundreds of documents which have mail
merge with a path to the old server and in some cases old drive letters.
How do I change the path to reflect the new server or drive letter in the
documents that have mail merge?

Thanks!

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http://www.eggheadcafe.com



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