Can someone please help me out here. A meilmerge application I built
using Office 2000 (Access, Excel, Word), all worked perfectly ... until
the site upgraded to Office 2003, which now refuses to recognise the
data source programmatically which now has to be specified each time.
I've checked KB 885832 which clearly says SP2 has fixed the problem.
I've got SP3, but still no solution. The problem persists whether the
application resides on a LAN or on a local PC.

The merge documents work when operated manually, however. So now my
workaround has been to advise users to generate the data source from
Access as per usual and then jump to the desktop and use short cuts to
run the merge(s)... all very frustrating given that these upgrades are
meant to facilitate and improve productivity, not impede it, like Office
2003 has done (the problems with Office 2003 just go on and on. It
really is a croc). But I am obliged to provide a solution. All of this
previously happened automatically in Office 2000.

Any advice appreciated

TIA

Richard John
Melbourne, Australia