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Open Excel Workbook as Data Source
I need Word 2002 to perform a mail merge to generate
letters and the source of the data is an open Excel (2002) workbook where the data has just been calculated. The workbook with the newly calculated data will not be "resaved". Over in word I am not seeing data as it is being changed in Excel, I am only seeing what was originally stored (ie "saved") in the Excel workbook. Is there any way to get Word to connect to the "live, unsaved cells" (sorry about the non-technical terms) in Excel and merge with that data? Thanks Debbie |
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Open Excel Workbook as Data Source
Hi Debbie,
I need Word 2002 to perform a mail merge to generate letters and the source of the data is an open Excel (2002) workbook where the data has just been calculated. The workbook with the newly calculated data will not be "resaved". Over in word I am not seeing data as it is being changed in Excel, I am only seeing what was originally stored (ie "saved") in the Excel workbook. Is there any way to get Word to connect to the "live, unsaved cells" (sorry about the non-technical terms) in Excel and merge with that data? Tricky... If it works at all, it would have to be with a DDE connection. By default, Word 2002 uses OLE DB to connect, which only connects to the saved data. Activate "confirm conversions on open" in Tools/Options/General and you can specify the connection method when opening the data source. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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