Anyone know what { DATA } fields are?

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Ed - 28 Mar 2007 00:08 GMT

Hello All,

Does anybody know if any version of Word has or had a DATA field (not
DATABASE or DATE)?

One of our clients has some templates which were converted from RTF files
and some of them have one of these fields in them -
e.g. { DATA c:\\SomeFolder\\SomeDocument.doc }.

We don't know exactly what version of what application originally produced
the RTF files.

Just curious to know what they are.

Thanks.

Ed

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CS Hayes - 28 Mar 2007 01:56 GMT

looks like some kind of hyperlink field.

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Chris Hayes
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Ed - 28 Mar 2007 11:10 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply.

Regards.

Ed

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Peter Jamieson - 28 Mar 2007 08:47 GMT

It was the field type used to specify a mail merge data source in earlier
versions of Word. I think Word 6 was probably the first with the new method.
At one time, I /think/ when you opened a .doc with a { DATA } field, Word
would convert it into a connection, but maybe not any more.

Peter Jamieson

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Ed - 28 Mar 2007 11:38 GMT

Hi Peter,

Suspected as much! Thanks for the information.

Regards.

Ed

> It was the field type used to specify a mail merge data source in earlier
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