I suddenly have a problem mail-merging labels and letters in WORD from an
ACCESS Database. I am guessing it is an incompatible problem but I just
can't seem to fix it - any ideas would be really appreciated. I can get
round the problem by exporting from Access to Excel then merging into Word
- but of course that is a bit crazy - and the records are not "up-to-date"
from the latest Query. I have also "Googled" the problem to no avail.

I was using Word 2000 and Access 2000 - during that time - the Access
database (with just under 1,000 records) merged beautifully with Word -
and I have lots of documents saved in Word with "permanent" links to
certain Queries - so that I can print out labels and sometimes merge
letters.

I have recently upgraded to Office XP and am up-to-date with all the
patches(and come to think about it - also 'successfully' downloaded SP2 for
Windows XP Home too). I have tried my database converted from Access 2000 to
Access 2002 (which apparently 'is' XP) and I have also retained the database
in the 2000 format - but either way.....
Now I have a problem - HOWEVER, all my original mail-merged Word documents
still work successfully (thank goodness) - its only brand new mail-merges
that I create which go wrong........

Any new mail-merge I attempt now - ends up with the recipients list
"empty" - I either get a warning saying the "data records were empty"
and/or "no recipients were found because the list was empty" - when all
the time - the various Queries I have tried linking to - definitely have
records in them - and they successfully Export to Excel and in fact a
Label Report within Access itself works fine too.

So it is somehow Word not reading the Query successfully I guess. The only
thing I can see as different comparing a "new" unsuccessful merge with an
"old" successful mail-merge is that if I look at the Mail-merge Wizard in
Word XP - the successful OLD version states it is using:
"database name" QUERY query-name

whereas the new style states:
[query-name] in "database-name"
(showing query name first - yet not mentioning the word QUERY as above).

But I've no idea whether I can ever change that?
Has anyone else experienced these problems? has anyone an idea?
Sue

I suddenly have a problem mail-merging labels and letters in WORD from an
ACCESS Database. I am guessing it is an incompatible problem but I just
can't seem to fix it - any ideas would be really appreciated. I can get
round the problem by exporting from Access to Excel then merging into Word
- but of course that is a bit crazy - and the records are not "up-to-date"
from the latest Query. I have also "Googled" the problem to no avail.

I was using Word 2000 and Access 2000 - during that time - the Access
database (with just under 1,000 records) merged beautifully with Word -
and I have lots of documents saved in Word with "permanent" links to
certain Queries - so that I can print out labels and sometimes merge
letters.

I have recently upgraded to Office XP and am up-to-date with all the
patches(and come to think about it - also 'successfully' downloaded SP2 for
Windows XP Home too). I have tried my database converted from Access 2000 to
Access 2002 (which apparently 'is' XP) and I have also retained the database
in the 2000 format - but either way.....
Now I have a problem - HOWEVER, all my original mail-merged Word documents
still work successfully (thank goodness) - its only brand new mail-merges
that I create which go wrong........

Any new mail-merge I attempt now - ends up with the recipients list
"empty" - I either get a warning saying the "data records were empty"
and/or "no recipients were found because the list was empty" - when all
the time - the various Queries I have tried linking to - definitely have
records in them - and they successfully Export to Excel and in fact a
Label Report within Access itself works fine too.

So it is somehow Word not reading the Query successfully I guess. The only
thing I can see as different comparing a "new" unsuccessful merge with an
"old" successful mail-merge is that if I look at the Mail-merge Wizard in
Word XP - the successful OLD version states it is using:
"database name" QUERY query-name

whereas the new style states:
[query-name] in "database-name"
(showing query name first - yet not mentioning the word QUERY as above).

But I've no idea whether I can ever change that?
Has anyone else experienced these problems? has anyone an idea?
Sue