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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2008Merging Word 2003 mail merge doc with Word 2003 table in Word 2007
We have a Word 2003 mail merge document which we merge with data in a Word 2003 table. It worked fine when we were in Office 2003, but now that we have upgraded to Office 2007, we get an error saying "ED798FBB is a mail merge document. Word cannot find its data source, H:/xxx.doc" and gives us the option to select the "Find Data Source" button. When we browse for the data source, it comes up with the same message "ED798FBB is a mail merge document. Word cannot find its data source, H:/xxx.doc". (Don't know what the EDB798FBB refers to as it is not the name of the document). We have experienced this same problem with a different document before. Any help appreciated.  SignatureMichelle Change the document back to a normal Word document and then change it back to a mail merge main document and try re-attaching the data source. It will be easier to do this if you turn on the display of the mail merge toolbar by selecting that item after selecting Toolbars from the View menu. 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 > We have a Word 2003 mail merge document which we merge with data in a Word > 2003 table. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > We have experienced this same problem with a different document before. > Any help appreciated. Thanks for your reply. Did you what you suggested. Changed it back to normal Word document attached data source again - worked ok (accept that logo at top of document was not displayed properly). Saved mail merge document. When I opened mail merge documenta again it just opened as a normal Word document, didn't even prompt me first to give me the option of attaching data. Please help. thanks, SignatureMichelle > Change the document back to a normal Word document and then change it back > to a mail merge main document and try re-attaching the data source. It will [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > We have experienced this same problem with a different document before. > > Any help appreciated. After changing to a normal Word document (so that the data source was removed) did you then change it back to a mail merge main document before attaching the data source? 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 > Thanks for your reply. > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> > We have experienced this same problem with a different document before. >> > Any help appreciated. Yes, followed the instructions that you gave. I'm very familiar with mail merge, have been using it for years. If I set it up in Word 2003 and attach data and reopen, it works, but it wont work in Office 2007. Please help. SignatureMichelle > After changing to a normal Word document (so that the data source was > removed) did you then change it back to a mail merge main document before [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > >> > We have experienced this same problem with a different document before. > >> > Any help appreciated. > We have aWord2003 mail merge document which we merge with data in aWord > 2003 table. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > -- > Michelle Hi, Why not try Advanced Word Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/awr/ ? It recovers several important Word documents for me and is really helpful! Alan Based on the discussion in the thread at : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields/browse_thr ead/thread/8193e9719822e4c/2c1e5aefd3a1e923?lnk=st&q=#2c1e5aefd3a1e923 it appears that it may be something to do with the length of the path to the data source. Try relocating the data source so that the path is as short as possible and see if the problem persists. 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 On 4ÔÂ3ÈÕ, ÉÏÎç7ʱ01·Ö, Michelle <Miche...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > We have aWord2003 mail merge document which we merge with data in aWord > 2003 table. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > Michelle Hi, Why not try Advanced Word Repair at http://www.datanumen.com/awr/ ? It recovers several important Word documents for me and is really helpful! Alan
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