Web file as input to mail merge

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Irish-woman - 15 May 2005 01:35 GMT

I have created an html file (as output from a web generated form,) in proper
tab delimited format for use as input to a word merge document. I can open
this web document from word, save it locally, and use it in my merge
template without difficulty, but when I try to use it directy from the web
site, using the correct url, I get "invalid filename" error.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 20 May 2005 14:09 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?SXJpc2gtd29tYW4=?=,

> I have created an html file (as output from a web generated form,) in proper
> tab delimited format for use as input to a word merge document. I can open
> this web document from word, save it locally, and use it in my merge
> template without difficulty, but when I try to use it directy from the web
> site, using the correct url, I get "invalid filename" error.

Mail merge supports only the "old-fashioned" types of file paths, not URLs.

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

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