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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / February 2004NEW CONFIRMATION SCREEN
I have a couple dozen of Mail-Merge documents, which were created in Word 2000. Each of the documents have a macro in them that cause the document to Merge and then print and close Word. However, when executed from Word 2003 there seems to be a new confirmation screen that pops up each time. The message box says "Opening this document will run the following SQL command: SELECT * FROM 'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt' " The only crumb of info I've been able to find out is this may be another "MS commitment to security", which this box will always come up unless some registry setting is modified. This is extremely annoying! Does anyone know any details about this? Other info that might be helpful is: All my documents are set to a header source "'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt"; the "C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt" is generate new each time for fresh data. Both are pipe-delimited. Regards, Craig. Hi Craig, > I have a couple dozen of Mail-Merge documents, which were created in Word > 2000. Each of the documents have a macro in them that cause the document to > Merge and then print and close Word. However, when executed from Word 2003 > there seems to be a new confirmation screen that pops up each time. The > message box says "Opening this document will run the following SQL command: > SELECT * FROM 'C:\myfolder\mergeddata.txt' " Yes, this is a new security measure, that has been discussed in this group already numerous times. See the following Knowledge Base article: "Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a Word Document - 825765 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765 Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) I would imagine this topic has been discussed, but I didn't see any messages about it in this group. But I've only just subscribed--Sorry. Is there any good Microsoft articles talking about this "security measure". Not necessarily, the fix or work-around but an official article that states it exist? And lastly, the 825765 articles states "you may receive the following message". The "you may" confuses me---Is there some sort of proper steps to do so that I don't receive that message, besides registry edits? Thanks, Craig. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C@hispeed.ch> wrote in message news:VA.00009468.0079dcd6@speedy... > Hi Craig, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Craig, > Is there any good Microsoft articles talking about this "security measure". > Not necessarily, the fix or work-around but an official article that states > it exist? Not that I know of, for sure. there is a "white paper" that discusses Office security; I've not read it through in detail, but I don't *recall* any mention of this. I saw it on Technet; not sure if you can find it on microsoft.com (there's no article number to search on). "Microsoft Office 2003 Security Whitepaper" > And lastly, the 825765 articles states "you may receive the following > message". The "you may" confuses me---Is there some sort of proper steps to > do so that I don't receive that message, besides registry edits? Nope. With the exception of not saving a data source with the document. There are lots of nit-pickers in this world, who will jump on someone (Microsoft) in a flash if anything they publicize isn't 100% accurate. They're just covering the possible case that someone won't get the message... (I've never known it to happen, but with software, who can be 100% sure?) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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