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Word 2003 & Access
When a mailmerge document in Word 2003 tries to use a query or table in an
Access 2003 database (where Access security is activated) as its data source, should the user be automatically asked by the system to give their Access user name and password? I know it did in Office 97, but for one of my clients it is not doing so in Office 2003 (after converting to Office 2003) - is this indicative of a fault? Jon |
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Word 2003 & Access
I know it did in Office 97, but for one of my clients it is not doing so
in Office 2003 (after converting to Office 2003) - is this indicative of a fault? In Office 97, the default connection method was DDE, which opened Access and got it to open the required database. In that case, the user would be presented with Access's login/password dialog box and all would be well. In Office 2003 the default connection method is OLEDB and (here, at any rate) a completely different dialog - the OLEDB datalink dialog box - pops up. The trouble is that getting through this dialog is difficult and tedious because you have to a. enter the correct user name b. uncheck the "blank password" box c. enter the password d. check the "Allow saving password" box e. Go to the "all" tab and enter the full pathname of the security database f. click OK g. select the query/table (if there is more than one in the database), at which point the data link dialog box pops up again and you have to... h. ...go through a-f again. Hardly likely to work in most cases, I think. What's more, if the user closes and reopens the mail merge main document, they face all these questions again because (as far as I can tell) Word does not actually "save the password" as the dialog box suggests. Which is probably the correct thing for Word to do from a security perspective, but unfortunately, this time through, you just see an error message. You can, however, revert to the Word 97 way of doing things (to a certain extent, anyway) by checking Word Tools|Options|general|"Confirm conversions at open", going through the connection dialog again and choosing the DDE option when it is offered. One trick with OLEDB connections to Access is to click the "New Data Source" button in "Select Data Source" when you first set up the data source, then choose the Jet OLEDB provider and fill in all the necessary pathnames and security info (as above in a-e, plus the database pathname). If you don't save the password, you should be presented with the data link dialog box when Word tries to open the database, but this time all the pathnames and username should be filled in and te user should "only" have to do b,c and d. But then things may get complicated again later - I forget. After you have created one such .odc file, the user should open the .odc, not the .mdb, when attaching a data source in a new mail merge main document. (It is also possible to use a .udl file, or make the connection in VBA, but let's not go there right now). Peter Jamieson "Jon" wrote in message ... When a mailmerge document in Word 2003 tries to use a query or table in an Access 2003 database (where Access security is activated) as its data source, should the user be automatically asked by the system to give their Access user name and password? I know it did in Office 97, but for one of my clients it is not doing so in Office 2003 (after converting to Office 2003) - is this indicative of a fault? Jon |
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