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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / January 2004ODBC or DDE neither work.
Thanks Cindy M, from a previous post Re: "No records found / Connection to ACCESS query or table" I am still unable to connect to ACCESS for a mail merge in any capacity from WORD for a merge. I followed the instructions on the website http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/index.html. I have tried connecting to ACCESS with all the choices avialable and been unsuccessful. Neither the 'DDE' or 'ODBC' or 'OLE DB' option works. Why is this so difficult. Both ACEESS and WORD came in the same Office suite (2002) together. This seems like such a common relation between the 2 applications. I have found a work around solution using the DDE. Thanks again Cindy for you help. One question still remains, however. Why is this such a difficult process when both the ACCESS and WORD applications are from the same office suite(2002)? It seems that because it is all Microsoft Office Suite software that this common use of these applications should be seemless and straight forward (Easy!). >-----Original Message----- >Thanks Cindy M, from a previous post Re: "No records [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >relation between the 2 applications. >. Hi Eric, Glad you're finally up and running. Believe me, it wasn't meant to be difficult :-) And FWIW, looking back at your original problem description, I can't recall having ever seen anything like this - in any version of Word. On my installation everything works just fine... (easy). If you wish, we can pursue what might be wrong with your configuration. My first concern is always to get things up and running, so that people can get on with their work. But there must be something basically wrong with *something* on your installation. > I have found a work around solution using the DDE. > Thanks again Cindy for you help. One question still [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > these applications should be seemless and straight > forward (Easy!). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) I would agree with you that *something* seems a bit off with my install. For now I think I will work with the work around and see if I come up with a better understanding of the root problem. At that point I may be better able to explain what is happening. Thanks again very much for your help. >-----Original Message----- >Hi Eric, [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > >. Eric, I'm having the same problem with Office Suite 2000. When I create a merge document in Word (like I always have) and then try to connect it with the corresponding data source in Excel, I receive a DDE error. It has worked before. Both documents are in the same subdirectory. Any help anyone can give would be very much appreciated. As now, I cannot merge and have a major project to finish with an encroaching deadline.
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