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Stu - 27 Dec 2003 04:06 GMT

I get the following property: thisdocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Type =
wdMergeInfoFromODSO. I can't find any documentation on the value of
wdMergeInfoFromODSO on MSDN. Can someone provide a definition of this
value? What is ODSO?

Stu

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 27 Dec 2003 14:47 GMT

Hi Stu,

> I get the following property: thisdocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Type =
> wdMergeInfoFromODSO. I can't find any documentation on the value of
> wdMergeInfoFromODSO on MSDN. Can someone provide a definition of this
> value? What is ODSO?

I'm not familiar with it, either, but my instinct tells me this could be
a main merge document linked to an Outlook data source?

Which version of Word are you seeing this in? And in which was the mail
merge set up? What's the data source? And how was it linked in (which
connection method)?

Cindy Meister
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http://www.mvps.org/word

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Stu - 27 Dec 2003 20:10 GMT

Hi, Cindy.

The data source is an access query. I'm using the 2003 beta version of
Office. I'm actually trying to confirm the connection method by using the
datasource.type property. I've heard that the default mailmerge connection
type has changed from DDE to OLE DB. I'm wondering if ODSO relates to this?

Stu

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Peter Jamieson - 28 Dec 2003 09:54 GMT

ODSO is the Office Data Source Object and refers to the method Word uses to
get data from some data sources. As I understand it, whenever Word uses
OLEDB to get data, it always actually uses ODSO to get it.

But at the moment I couldn't tell you the precise relationship between the
Type and Subtype parameters/properties and what Word actually does.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 29 Dec 2003 12:56 GMT

Hi Stu,

> The data source is an access query. I'm using the 2003 beta version of
> Office. I'm actually trying to confirm the connection method by using the
> datasource.type property. I've heard that the default mailmerge connection
> type has changed from DDE to OLE DB. I'm wondering if ODSO relates to this?

You certainly need to get and install the final release version, quite a
number of things were changed between the last publicly available beta and the
final release...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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