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DCView - 07 Oct 2007 20:20 GMT

I am creating a mail merge letter using an Excel data base. When I try and
link the Word document to the Excel data source I get the message "word was
unable to enter the data source." I get this message regardless of what
computer I use. I can open the Excel sheet on its own. Interestingly I am
able to link prior excel spreadsheets through mail merge. What is going on?
Is there a code on my sheet? Is there something in the mail merge letter
preventing the link? Can somebody help me?????

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 08 Oct 2007 11:14 GMT

Take a look at the information in the follow series of messages, one of the
parties to which was fellow MVP, Peter Jamieson:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields/browse_thr
ead/thread/d2eb00fba628cfa1/b65dc097dc1264c3?lnk=st&q=&rnum=7#b65dc097dc1264c3

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I am creating a mail merge letter using an Excel data base. When I try and
> link the Word document to the Excel data source I get the message "word
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> Is there a code on my sheet? Is there something in the mail merge letter
> preventing the link? Can somebody help me?????

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