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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / August 2005Mailmerge using data from the web
I'm trying to create an address labels document using data from my website. I've created a text file online but when I type the URL it says "document name is not valid, check the path etc etc". When I save the file to my PC it works file. If i load the URL as a new document itself it works fine, but using it as a datasource it doesn't. That's correct - Word simply cannot use an Internet URL as a data source. It needs a file that it can access through the Windows file system or via the Windows network. Even if you do something like put your data in a SQL database such as MySQL on your website, you will have to have either a .udl file or .odc file, accessible via the Windows file system/Windows network, with the necessary connection info. or an ODBC DSN to use the data as a merge data source. Peter Jamieson > I'm trying to create an address labels document using data from my > website. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > works file. If i load the URL as a new document itself it works fine, but > using it as a datasource it doesn't.
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