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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / July 2007Major mail merge problems using Word 2003 and Windows XP
The business I work for has recently upgraded from Windows 2000 to XP and Office 2000 to 2003. All the mail merge documents we have were created using Office 2000. Since the upgrade we are having major problems as follows: The Query Criteria we enter doesn't save so we need to re-enter every time. When we enter dates it is Americanising them (ie changing them from dd/mm/yyy to mm/dd/yyyy) When we finally get it to work it always pulls the first record from the spreadsheet out regardless of the criteria - even if they shouldn't be pulled through. Does anyone know if these are general compatability issues, or is it something specific to the versions our company has purchased? You may find http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm and http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm helpful in overcoming at least some of the transition issues from Word/Office 2000.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > The business I work for has recently upgraded from Windows 2000 to XP > and Office 2000 to 2003. All the mail merge documents we have were [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Does anyone know if these are general compatability issues, or is it > something specific to the versions our company has purchased? Brilliant - that's helped me with the dates, so thanks a lot. On the first link you have below, I tried to follow that and when I click to link to Excel via DDE, it said it couldn't connect that way - is this a normal problem and is there an easy solution? Cheers. > You may find http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm and > http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm helpful in overcoming at [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Does anyone know if these are general compatability issues, or is it > > something specific to the versions our company has purchased? What exactly does the error message say? If it says "Word could not re-establish a DDE Connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task", the first thing to check is that you have not checked Excel Tools|Options|General|"Ignore other applications" NB, although all your existing applications should work, assuming that you always used DDE (the default in WOrd 2000), the DDE method only lets you connect to the first sheet in a workbook. Peter Jamieson > Brilliant - that's helped me with the dates, so thanks a lot. On the first > link you have below, I tried to follow that and when I click to link to [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> > Does anyone know if these are general compatability issues, or is it >> > something specific to the versions our company has purchased? That's the message. I think I've got around the problem now though. For some reason a buch of the letters still worked, so I'm using those as a template and it seems to have solved the problem. A little strange, but I can live with that. Thanks for all the help. > What exactly does the error message say? > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >> > Does anyone know if these are general compatability issues, or is it > >> > something specific to the versions our company has purchased?
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