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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / March 2004'View Source' button unavailable.
I have some clients who have recently upgraded from Word 97 to Word 2003. They have a number of mail merge documents originally created in Word 97. The merging data is contained in a seperate Word document with a table. When they are editing the data to be merged, they need to open the file itself. To do this, they: (1) Click 'Mail Merge Recipients' button (2) Click 'Edit...' (3) Click 'View Source' They are able to do this in Word 97, but in Word 2003 (and in Word 2000), the 'View Source' button is greyed out and is not clickable. I have tried to create a new document and new data document, but run into the same issue. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. The work-around is to open the document containing the table via File>Open  SignaturePlease post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP >I have some clients who have recently upgraded from Word > 97 to Word 2003. They have a number of mail merge [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Thanks. Doug... Thank you very much for your kind and quick response. I have already suggested to my clients that they manually open the document containing the data as a temporary solution. However, my clients do not see this as a permenent solution (although I am not sure why). The files are buried deep within a directory structure, and they contend that having to manually open the data files wastes time. They do not understand why they can't do it "the way they used to". Is it possible that this is due to a security lock down? Is there a security Word template that needs to be installed? >-----Original Message----- >The work-around is to open the document containing the table via File>Open [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > >. From the Tools menu, select Customize and then go to the Commands tab and select the All Commands category and then locate the Mailmerge Helper command from the list of commands and then click and drag that onto a toolbar. If they then use this button, it will allow them to create/execute mailmerges in the same way that they used to in Word 97, including Editing the datasource and being able to click on the view data source button to see the document containing the data. SignaturePlease post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps > Doug... > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] >> >>. Doug... Thank you once again for your response. Your solution is perfect! I am certain my clients will be most pleased with this solution. Many thanks! >-----Original Message----- >From the Tools menu, select Customize and then go to the Commands tab and [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > >. |
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