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Mail Merge issue with Office 2003 and Access(XP/2002)
I am trying to Merge Word Documents (using word 2003) with data from access
Database (I have installed only word/powerpoint/outlook 2003 and I am still using Access 2002(XP)). When I had MS OFFICE 2002(XP) these letters worked fine. But when I upgraded the office (word/powerpoint/outlook) to 2003 these letters are not working anymore and I get an error message. I tried several different ways to get it to work (DDE connection does not work at all. ODBC works but when I click on the QUERY to pull the data that's when it fails). I was fussing with this since yesterday and finally I find out that the query that I was using to pull the data from would not work for Word2003. I am not sure if this is a gliche or may be I am missing something here. So, here is how my query works. When I click on my query it asks for "input parameter" and based on what I type the query pulls that specific data. I tried connecting my word document to a table and also other simple queries (without parameters) its working fine, but only when a query has an INPUT PARAMETERS (to be typed/entered) it's failing. I am not sure how to work around this problem. I tried several different ways but in vain. I would appreciate if someone can help. |
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To my knowledge, you cannot "cross-version" when you use Mail merge. Dump
the Access data to an Excel or CSV or something... ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "thridandapani" wrote in message ... I am trying to Merge Word Documents (using word 2003) with data from access Database (I have installed only word/powerpoint/outlook 2003 and I am still using Access 2002(XP)). When I had MS OFFICE 2002(XP) these letters worked fine. But when I upgraded the office (word/powerpoint/outlook) to 2003 these letters are not working anymore and I get an error message. I tried several different ways to get it to work (DDE connection does not work at all. ODBC works but when I click on the QUERY to pull the data that's when it fails). I was fussing with this since yesterday and finally I find out that the query that I was using to pull the data from would not work for Word2003. I am not sure if this is a gliche or may be I am missing something here. So, here is how my query works. When I click on my query it asks for "input parameter" and based on what I type the query pulls that specific data. I tried connecting my word document to a table and also other simple queries (without parameters) its working fine, but only when a query has an INPUT PARAMETERS (to be typed/entered) it's failing. I am not sure how to work around this problem. I tried several different ways but in vain. I would appreciate if someone can help. |