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Howard9 - 11 Dec 2006 23:24 GMT

Hi all,

I created a letterhead template for my small home business. Somewhere
along the line it seems to have got linked to an excel document and/or
an Access document. I am not aware of having done this but it's
'possible' that I may have reused an earlier created document and not
realised the link.... tho I don't think so.

Anyway... now neither the Excel or the Access will open when I try to
open this template OR any of the letters I saved as a result of using
this template.... and I have to quit and crash Word to get out of it.

My problem is that I need to get access to this template to avoid having
to completely recreate the template from scratch ...

Can I turn off this DDE function somehow ? I just want to open this
document to get a look at it or print it ?

Much obliged.

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Howard9 - 11 Dec 2006 23:41 GMT

Sorry guys...

I rebooted twice and it seems part fixed....

Now the document does open...and opens an excel spreadsheet document.

I saw that the word doc is actually a mail merge doc and I went in to
Mailmerge and made it revert to an ordinary document.

However even after saving it.... and opening it again... it still opens
the excel doc !

I have searched through the one page docu and cannot find any other
evidence of a link :-( and the 'links' item is greyed out in the Edit
menu...

Any ideas anyone ?

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Peter Jamieson - 12 Dec 2006 01:01 GMT

Is the thing you saved a template or a document?

Is it attached to a template that has a mail merge data source attached? if
it is, you will need to find the template, open it, and remove the data
source from that as well.

Peter Jamieson

> Sorry guys...
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Howard9 - 12 Dec 2006 12:45 GMT

> Is the thing you saved a template or a document?
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> Peter Jamieson

OK peter. The attached file never opens.... so I won't be able to do
that. Seems like a right mess in how the files are created.

Tks for your time.

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Peter Jamieson - 12 Dec 2006 12:51 GMT

> OK peter. The attached file never opens.... so I won't be able to do
> that. Seems like a right mess in how the files are created.

Do you mean that you cannot open the attached template?

If so, perhaps the best approach is to create a new template (I don't know
what you have in this one (and maybe you don't know either :-) ) and attach
your document to that instead.

Peter Jamieson

>> Is the thing you saved a template or a document?
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> Tks for your time.

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