I haven't used the specific Word XP/Access 2003 combination you are using
but Word will only let you edit the Recipient List if it thinks it is in a
special format called Office Address List (OAL) format. This is just a
typical .mdb but with exactly one table with a specific name and exactly one
query with a similar name. It is easy to damage OALs if, for example, the
user tries to edit them or do soemthing else to them in Access.
So...
> And it works fine with these same 2 documents on other computers using
> the same versions.
Are you definitely using exactly the same file? Or could the file on the
"problem" system have been altered? If you copy the .mdb from one of the "OK
systems" to the "problem system", does it all work again? If not, something
else must be preventing Word from recognising the file as an OAL.
Peter Jamieson
>I have a PC using Word XP and Access 2003 and when the user does a mail
> merge and selects the database she can't edit the recipient list. She
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> Thanks