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Word2000 mailmerge message
Hi all,
Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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Word2000 mailmerge message
"Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord"
I would translate this literally as "delimiter characters in the field name record" 1. Do you have a separate "header data source" that just contains field/column names? 2. Does your data source contain numbers? 3. If it does, do the numbers use "," for the decimal point, e.g. "11,01", or do they use ".", e.g. "11.01" ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi all, Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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Word2000 mailmerge message
Hi Peter,
1. No, the fields are in the datafile itself (the field separator is: Tab and the record separator is return); 2. Yes, the datasource uses numbers (the price field) 3. The decimal separator is the comma e.g. 0,00 The pricefield always has a valleu. With regards, Harry "Peter Jamieson" wrote: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord" I would translate this literally as "delimiter characters in the field name record" 1. Do you have a separate "header data source" that just contains field/column names? 2. Does your data source contain numbers? 3. If it does, do the numbers use "," for the decimal point, e.g. "11,01", or do they use ".", e.g. "11.01" ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi all, Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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Word2000 mailmerge message
1. Can you try changing those commas to periods (, - . )
(My theory is that Word may be having difficulty deciding which is the field delimiter character because "," and tab are both candidates, and in this case I am not sure that your Regional Settings will make any difference. 2. If possible, can you also open your Mail Merge Main Document when the data source is open, start the VBA Editor, enter the following commands in the immediate window, and post the results here? print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.name print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.connectstring print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.querystring -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi Peter, 1. No, the fields are in the datafile itself (the field separator is: Tab and the record separator is return); 2. Yes, the datasource uses numbers (the price field) 3. The decimal separator is the comma e.g. 0,00 The pricefield always has a valleu. With regards, Harry "Peter Jamieson" wrote: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord" I would translate this literally as "delimiter characters in the field name record" 1. Do you have a separate "header data source" that just contains field/column names? 2. Does your data source contain numbers? 3. If it does, do the numbers use "," for the decimal point, e.g. "11,01", or do they use ".", e.g. "11.01" ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi all, Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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Word2000 mailmerge message
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Changed de commas into points: same result. Changed the commas into #: same result. 2. a. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.name \\Hdc.local\dfs\ABO-Prod-Files\Brieven\NAZ_GE\07241050.DOC b. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.connectstring - nothing happens - the merge program opens the datasource, does the mailmerge and closes the databaseconnection all be itself. When give the command the databaseconnection is already lost. c. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.querystring SELECT * FROM \\Hdc.local\dfs\ABO-Prod-Files\Brieven\NAZ_GE\07241050.DOC I wish I could give you the datasource but the data holds private information from our customers, I hope you understand. Harry Broekhof "Peter Jamieson" wrote: 1. Can you try changing those commas to periods (, - . ) (My theory is that Word may be having difficulty deciding which is the field delimiter character because "," and tab are both candidates, and in this case I am not sure that your Regional Settings will make any difference. 2. If possible, can you also open your Mail Merge Main Document when the data source is open, start the VBA Editor, enter the following commands in the immediate window, and post the results here? print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.name print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.connectstring print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.querystring -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi Peter, 1. No, the fields are in the datafile itself (the field separator is: Tab and the record separator is return); 2. Yes, the datasource uses numbers (the price field) 3. The decimal separator is the comma e.g. 0,00 The pricefield always has a valleu. With regards, Harry "Peter Jamieson" wrote: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord" I would translate this literally as "delimiter characters in the field name record" 1. Do you have a separate "header data source" that just contains field/column names? 2. Does your data source contain numbers? 3. If it does, do the numbers use "," for the decimal point, e.g. "11,01", or do they use ".", e.g. "11.01" ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi all, Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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Word2000 mailmerge message
I wish I could give you the datasource but the data holds private
information from our customers, I hope you understand. Yes, but it does make diagnosis harder. Mostly, all I can do is ask questions based on what I have encountered in the past. Are these .doc files that you are using as data sources actually Word .doc files or some other format (plain text?) with a .doc extension? When you have a problem with a particular data source file, if you are able to save the data source and peform the connection manually, do you always have the same problem? If not, there could be a problem to do with file locking or availability. I have encountered problems in the past with data sources stored on DFS fiel systems. Are these .doc files actually Word format .doc files, or (e.g.) plain text files with the extension .doc? (If the files are generated automatically, what format options are available, if you had to change to solve the problem?) Do the data sources that "fail" have any of the following characteristics when compared with the ones that do not fail: a. a lot more columns or rows b. some, or more, accented characters in the data rows or header row c. some, or more, text delimiter character (typically double-quote here in the U.K.), or multiple double-quote characters d. multi-line data? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Window nummers (word2000)" wrote in message ... 1. Changed de commas into points: same result. Changed the commas into #: same result. 2. a. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.name \\Hdc.local\dfs\ABO-Prod-Files\Brieven\NAZ_GE\07241050.DOC b. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.connectstring - nothing happens - the merge program opens the datasource, does the mailmerge and closes the databaseconnection all be itself. When give the command the databaseconnection is already lost. c. print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.querystring SELECT * FROM \\Hdc.local\dfs\ABO-Prod-Files\Brieven\NAZ_GE\07241050.DOC I wish I could give you the datasource but the data holds private information from our customers, I hope you understand. Harry Broekhof "Peter Jamieson" wrote: 1. Can you try changing those commas to periods (, - . ) (My theory is that Word may be having difficulty deciding which is the field delimiter character because "," and tab are both candidates, and in this case I am not sure that your Regional Settings will make any difference. 2. If possible, can you also open your Mail Merge Main Document when the data source is open, start the VBA Editor, enter the following commands in the immediate window, and post the results here? print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.name print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.connectstring print activedocument.mailmerge.datasource.querystring -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi Peter, 1. No, the fields are in the datafile itself (the field separator is: Tab and the record separator is return); 2. Yes, the datasource uses numbers (the price field) 3. The decimal separator is the comma e.g. 0,00 The pricefield always has a valleu. With regards, Harry "Peter Jamieson" wrote: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord" I would translate this literally as "delimiter characters in the field name record" 1. Do you have a separate "header data source" that just contains field/column names? 2. Does your data source contain numbers? 3. If it does, do the numbers use "," for the decimal point, e.g. "11,01", or do they use ".", e.g. "11.01" ? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Harry Broekhof" wrote in message ... Hi all, Daily we merge hondreds of letters to our customers (a set of 30 Word2000 documemts). Every day we get (with random documents in the set) a message window that has a caption: "Scheidingstekens voor veldnamenrecord". Word does not recognizes the fileformat of the datafile. The datafile is being generated by a database routine for "all" the letters. Word proposes a file format (TAB separated) and this is "always" the correct format and the operators hit the "enterkey" when that happens. This message is getting on there nerves after doing this for quit some time now:-) Does annyone knows how to suppress that message? With regards, Harry Broekhof p.s. we use Windows2000 in a large network and Word2000 for merging. |
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