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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / August 2005Discovering current datasource
I have recently 'inherited' a mailmerge document which is linked to a access data source. The document is in desperate need of modernisation(as is the database), but where it is so old, no-one can tell me where the datasource is actually held. Can I work backwards from an existing mailmerge document to find the datasource?? I seem to remember doing this is using Office 2003, but 2003 is causing me a nightmare! Microsoft- Revert back to the 2000 mailmerge wizard, PLEASE!! You can reinstate the Mailmerge Helper from pre-XP versions of Word, From the Tools menu, select Customize and in the Customize dialog, activate the Commands tab and then select the All Commands category and then scroll down through the list of commands until you find the Mailmerge Helper item. Left click and drag it onto a menu or the toolbar.  SignatureHope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP >I have recently 'inherited' a mailmerge document which is linked to a >access [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Microsoft- Revert back to the 2000 mailmerge wizard, PLEASE!! Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmVkIFdyZW4=?=, > The document is in desperate need of modernisation(as is the database), but > where it is so old, no-one can tell me where the datasource is actually held. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > datasource?? I seem to remember doing this is using Office 2003, but 2003 is > causing me a nightmare! In Word 2002/2003 the best way to see the path to the data source is in the Help/About/System Info list. Drill down the Office applications tree, to Word, then Mail merge. All kinds of goodies in there :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org 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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