Cannot Edit Data Source in Data Merge Manager

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Marsha L. Hillson Gerace =?ISO-8859-1?B?lQ==?= - 04 Feb 2005 18:30 GMT

Whenever I do a mail merge in Word 2004 (11.1 [040910]) the Edit Data Source
button is grayed out in the Data Merge Manager; is this a known bug or does
anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix. I do MANY mail merges and I
need this to work. I¹ve tried several different files and sources and the
button is always grayed out; all the same files and sources work fine in the
Windows version(s). Data Source is an Excel spreadsheet.

Thanks.

Marsha L. Hillson Gerace
mailto:marsha.hillsongerace.1979@alum.bu.edu
Entourage 11.1.0 (040913) & Mac OS X 10.3.7 (7S215); 1GB RAM

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Doug Robbins - 04 Feb 2005 23:11 GMT

Cannot Edit Data Source in Data Merge ManagerThat's the way it is in recent
versions of Word (bug, feature, whatever). If you need to edit the data,
and it comes from Excel, then Excel will be the best thing to do it with.

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"Marsha L. Hillson Gerace ." <marsha.hillsongerace.1979@alum.bu.edu> wrote

Whenever I do a mail merge in Word 2004 (11.1 [040910]) the Edit Data Source
button is grayed out in the Data Merge Manager; is this a known bug or does
anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix. I do MANY mail merges and I
need this to work. I've tried several different files and sources and the
button is always grayed out; all the same files and sources work fine in the
Windows version(s). Data Source is an Excel spreadsheet.

Thanks.

Marsha L. Hillson Gerace
mailto:marsha.hillsongerace.1979@alum.bu.edu
Entourage 11.1.0 (040913) & Mac OS X 10.3.7 (7S215); 1GB RAM

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