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Hi
I have a mail merge doc that pulls in its data from a .csv file, this work ok with word 2000 But now i am using word 03 and everytime i open the document it pormpts me to find data source. I have read all help docs and they point to removing the header info and reattaching data source but this does not work!! Neither does copying data locally. Any help gratefully recieved. Allan |
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Hi Allan,
I have a mail merge doc that pulls in its data from a .csv file, this work ok with word 2000 But now i am using word 03 and everytime i open the document it pormpts me to find data source. Have you been using the Recipients dialog box to make selections? If you set up a new document to merge with this file, do you see the same thing? (Test with using Recipients, and then with not using the dialog box) 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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Hi Cindy
Thanks for your help. yes i have been using the recipient list, so tried not using it. This seems to have worked, but will need to test more Thanks very much for your help Allan -----Original Message----- Hi Allan, I have a mail merge doc that pulls in its data from a .csv file, this work ok with word 2000 But now i am using word 03 and everytime i open the document it pormpts me to find data source. Have you been using the Recipients dialog box to make selections? If you set up a new document to merge with this file, do you see the same thing? (Test with using Recipients, and then with not using the dialog box) 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- :-) . |
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Hi Allan,
yes i have been using the recipient list, so tried not using it. This seems to have worked, but will need to test more In this case, it might help you to use a different connection method, such as Word's internal text converter (which is probably what you were using with 2000). Activate "Confirm conversions on open" in Tools/Options/General, then link to the data source file again. 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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