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stampinjan - 26 Mar 2005 01:55 GMT

I have a large database that is built in Word - I have used it to create many
catalog reports and labels - I tried to run one today and it tells me that it
can't find my database because it is saved as a mail merge main document.
How did this happen and what do I do to fix it??

Thanks

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 26 Mar 2005 12:20 GMT

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> I have a large database that is built in Word - I have used it to create many
> catalog reports and labels - I tried to run one today and it tells me that it
> can't find my database because it is saved as a mail merge main document.
> How did this happen and what do I do to fix it??

Can't tell you how it happened, since I wasn't looking over your shoulder :-)
But you should be able to fix it easily enough:

- Open the database (I assume it's a Word doc with a table)

- Tools/Mail Merge (I assume this is Word 97 or 2000)

- In the first step of the mail merge helper, choose "Revert to normal Word
document"

- Save and close

Now try linking up to it in a mail merge again.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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