[Chris Clark]

I have recently worked on tranferring a large n umber of customers from word
200 to word 2003.

The biggest single issue being repoereted is with mail merge not working.

The first time a mail merge document is opened in 2003 the find entry icon
does not find any entries in the datasource. I have to manually reset the
datasource using the tools - mail merge wizard before this works.

This then works fine until , an new record is added to the datasource:-

After adding a new reord from the data form , the newly added reord cannot
then be found when using find entry (icon with binoculars).

The only way I can make this work i sif I navigate to the last record in the
datasource (i.e. the one I have just added) and then the search will work
after this for that record.

It is as if the link to the datasource is not being updated coirrectly after
a new record is added.

The datasource is a word document (table).

The environamnet is Word 2003 (sp1) running on XP rpofessional SP1.

Has anyone experienced this problem.

[Graham Mayor]

This is probably connected with the way Word 2003 connects to its data which
caused a lot of headaches when Microsoft changed things around (in Word
2002). The issues are covered at
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm and articles
linked from that page.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Chris Clark wrote:
I have recently worked on transferring a large n umber of customers
from word 200 to word 2003.

The biggest single issue being reported is with mail merge not
working.

The first time a mail merge document is opened in 2003 the find entry
icon does not find any entries in the datasource. I have to manually
reset the datasource using the tools - mail merge wizard before this
works.

This then works fine until , an new record is added to the
datasource:-

After adding a new record from the data form , the newly added record
cannot then be found when using find entry (icon with binoculars).

The only way I can make this work if I navigate to the last record
in the datasource (i.e. the one I have just added) and then the
search will work after this for that record.

It is as if the link to the datasource is not being updated
correctly after a new record is added.

The datasource is a word document (table).

The environment is Word 2003 (sp1) running on XP professional SP1.

Has anyone experienced this problem.