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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2008Don't want to Select Data Source EVERY time I open the merge docum
I have correctly assigned a data source to the word 2003 document and now want my user to simply open the document and select to Merge to New Document. This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data Source every time. Please help! Unfortunately, you have to apply the change described in the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825765/en-us  SignaturePeter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk >I have correctly assigned a data source to the word 2003 document and now > want my user to simply open the document and select to Merge to New > Document. > This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data > Source every time. Please help! Sally: I see there were no responses to your post, and don't have anything to offer, but I did wonder if you were able to achieve a solution? I have a similar problem with a client using Office 2003 Small Bus. Ed. where it will not retain the data source on a a mail merge. If we open the same document on a machine that uses Word 2002 it works fine. Dennis > I have correctly assigned a data source to the word 2003 document and now > want my user to simply open the document and select to Merge to New Document. > This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data > Source every time. Please help! There was this response: Unfortunately, you have to apply the change described in the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825765/en-us SignaturePeter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk > Sally: > I see there were no responses to your post, and don't have anything to [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data >> Source every time. Please help! Thanks Peter. I did the regedit per the attached thread and it did NOT resolve my issue. In fact, I'm now at a second user site and have just encountered the problem again! This user has Office Professional 2003 with SP2 installed and it won't retain the data source. I'm at a loss! Dennis > There was this response: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >> This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data > >> Source every time. Please help! I seem to have stumbled onto a resolution for this problem, although I don't know why it works. In the merges that I was doing both my document and my data source resided on a folder on a server, while the user was at a network workstation. By moving the data source onto the "C" drive of the local machine it now retains the data source on the merge document. As I say, I don't know WHY this works, but I've tried it now in both of the locations where I was having the data source retention problem and it has fixed it in both cases. Dennis > I have correctly assigned a data source to the word 2003 document and now > want my user to simply open the document and select to Merge to New Document. > This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data > Source every time. Please help! I believe that it is something to do with the length of the path to the folder on the network that causes an SQL select string to exceed the maximum "rememberable" address - something like the usual 255 characters. SignatureHope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP >I seem to have stumbled onto a resolution for this problem, although I >don't [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> This option is not available though, since the user must go and OPen Data >> Source every time. Please help!
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