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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / October 2003word 97 mail merge vs word 2002 mail merge
Hi: I have mail merge documents which were created in word 97 with data in ascii comma delimited text files using a data header source to provide field names. When these files are brought into word 2002, I can't find any reference to or way to edit the header source. This appeared in the word 97 mail merge helper, but not in the word 2002 wizard, nor anywhere else. What am I issing? Thanks Kempton Mandeville The option to have a separate header source stil exists in Word 2002 but you have to revive the old MailMergeHelper to set one up - try Tools|Customize|Commands, select the All Commands category then locate MailMergeHelper in the list of commands and drag it to a menu or toolbar. Even then, because Word 2002 uses a different default connection method (OLEDB) than Word 97, you may find that it will not use a header source properly. But perhaps we can try to cross that bridge if you come to it. Finally, Word 2002 does not appear to let you have a mail merge main document that /just/ has a header source. -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > Hi: > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Kempton Mandeville hi peter: thanks for the answer ... i had actually already found a previous posting of yours and followed it a couple of things >>Even then, because Word 2002 uses a different default connection method >>(OLEDB) than Word 97, you may find that it will not use a header source the header source in question was a word document, and was updated and works fine. >>Finally, Word 2002 does not appear to let you have a mail merge main >>document that /just/ has a header source. My .dot for creating custom mail merge documents with a custom toolbar was set up with only a header source and no data source attached, and works fine. The user assigns the data source. I presume a document set up using the old MailMergeHelper would work too. However, once a data source is attached to the document, I don't find a way to get rid of it. Thanks again for your help. Kempton >-----Original Message----- >The option to have a separate header source stil exists in Word 2002 but you [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > >. Thanks for the feedback - I'll have a look at this when I have a moment. -- Peter Jamieson MS Word MVP > hi peter: > [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > > > >. Hi Kempton, > However, once a data source is attached > to the document, I don't find a way to get rid of it. The usual way would be to set the type of merge back to "Normal document"... Cindy Meister  SignatureINTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.mvps.org/word This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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