Hi Joe,

You can't get a merged table to update - there's no dynamic
link in a merge result. But you should be able to manage
something using "Insert database".

When you do this, in the very last dialog box, there's an
inncuous appearing checkbox. Activate this, and you should
have a link back to the database table.

To force the update, click on the table and press F9.

I am running Word 2000 along with Access 2000 (with
Windows 98se). I have a simple address database in Access
(FirstName, LastName, Street, Zip, etc.) and want to
create tables in Word by merging (or "insert database").
I can do such, but I cannot figure out how to get the
table to update automatically when I change something in
the Access file.

I want to have several printable formats of this
infomation from Access. The people's names and numbers
are constantly changing, and I do not want to have to
recreate each Word document everytime someone's info is
updated.

How can I get a merged table to be updated automatically
when a field in Access changes or is updated?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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