You probably need to make the registry change described in the following KB
article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825765/en-us

If you don't, when you open the Word document in code, the data source is
diconnected and the document that is supposed to be a Mail merge Main
Document becomes a Normal Word Document.

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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Jerry" wrote in message
...
Hey guys, I have a mail merge document that is set to Directory for the
Main
Document Type. If I close it and manually reopen it, it stays as a
"Directory" document, but if I open it through automation (i.e.
oWord.Documents.Open("C:\SomeDirectory\SomeDirecto ryDocument.doc")) the
oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = -1 as soon as you do the
Open() command and then it gets set to 0 once you call the
OpenDataSource().

How can I open the document through automation and keep the document type
that the user originally saved it with?


Thanks for your help,

Jerry