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Allan - 09 Jun 2004 14:56 GMT

Hi

I have a mail merge doc that pulls in its data from
a .csv file, this work ok with word 2000

But now i am using word 03 and everytime i open the
document it pormpts me to find data source.

I have read all help docs and they point to removing the
header info and reattaching data source but this does not
work!!

Neither does copying data locally.

Any help gratefully recieved.

Allan

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 09 Jun 2004 16:25 GMT

Hi Allan,

> I have a mail merge doc that pulls in its data from
> a .csv file, this work ok with word 2000
>
> But now i am using word 03 and everytime i open the
> document it pormpts me to find data source.

Have you been using the Recipients dialog box to make
selections?

If you set up a new document to merge with this file, do
you see the same thing? (Test with using Recipients, and
then with not using the dialog box)

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

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Allan - 09 Jun 2004 16:43 GMT

Hi Cindy

Thanks for your help.

yes i have been using the recipient list, so tried not
using it.

This seems to have worked, but will need to test more

Thanks very much for your help

Allan

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 09 Jun 2004 17:06 GMT

Hi Allan,

> yes i have been using the recipient list, so tried not
> using it.
>
> This seems to have worked, but will need to test more

In this case, it might help you to use a different
connection method, such as Word's internal text converter
(which is probably what you were using with 2000). Activate
"Confirm conversions on open" in Tools/Options/General,
then link to the data source file again.

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

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