Changing merge source default

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JC - 02 Aug 2004 19:20 GMT

I inherited a version of word on the computer at my new
job. My word version is Word 2002 SP-1. Whenever I set
up a mail merge, word goes off looking for ODBC data
sources. Even if I guide it to an Excel document, it
deals with each column as a database column with
delimited field data.

The interface is new to me and highly frustrating when
99.9% of my merge's are from Excel. Can anyone guild me
to changing the default. The simple act of listing merge
fields (normally the column headings in the Excel
document) defaults to SQL Query lists and not the Excel
headings. I'm confused and frustrated.

Thanks.

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Doug Robbins - 02 Aug 2004 19:48 GMT

See fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

and also Graham Mayor's at http://www.gmayor.com/Word_pages.htm

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I inherited a version of word on the computer at my new
> job. My word version is Word 2002 SP-1. Whenever I set
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