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N. Smith - 23 Sep 2004 02:18 GMT

In Word 2000, created a 3 field table for address labels,
began entering data in the Data Form window. After several
completed records, the third field box was greyed out and
contained the message: (Deleted table cell, Cannot edit)
Trying to print the records already entered resulted in
error message that table was corrupted. What caused this,
how can I recover from it, and prevent it in the future?

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Doug Robbins - 23 Sep 2004 03:00 GMT

Some how, one of the columns from the table must have been deleted or the
table became corrupt.

Instead of using the Data Form window, you can just create a 3 column table
in a Word document and enter the field names in the first row and the data
for each record on a separate row. Or, enter the data into and Excel
spreadsheet that has the field names in the first row.

See the article "Creating a Mail Merge Data Source" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateADataSource.htm

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> In Word 2000, created a 3 field table for address labels,
> began entering data in the Data Form window. After several
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> error message that table was corrupted. What caused this,
> how can I recover from it, and prevent it in the future?

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