Database error when Merging from Excel

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

R. Derek Pattison - 25 Aug 2005 21:14 GMT

I have Office 2003 and Windows XP SP2, and when I'm trying to do a mailmerge
from one of my Excel spreadsheets, I've started geteting an error that says:

'This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine
failures. Please try again later.'

Or, if I try to create choose that spreadsheet to use as the data source, I
get to the dialog box to select table, then, there is a second box to select
table, and it's empty.

I also sometimes get an error telling me that the data source can't be opened.

I can open and work with the spreadsheet in Excel without any problems.

Other mail merges I do with Excel spreadsheets work fine, and this
spreadsheet was fine until a week or so ago. I've run the Detect and Repair
to no avail. Any advice?

Reply to this Message

meowkapow - 06 Sep 2005 03:00 GMT

Hi, I've also had the exact same problem. Were you abel to fix your own and
if so, could you help me at all?

Thanks in advance,

Nicole

> I have Office 2003 and Windows XP SP2, and when I'm trying to do a mailmerge
> from one of my Excel spreadsheets, I've started geteting an error that says:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> spreadsheet was fine until a week or so ago. I've run the Detect and Repair
> to no avail. Any advice?

Reply to this Message

R. Derek Pattison - 07 Sep 2005 03:20 GMT

I cut and pasted the data into a new spreadsheet, and that worked, so I guess
the file was just corrupt. It took some time to fix my formulas, but it was
the only thing that fixed it.

I hope this helps,
Derek

> Hi, I've also had the exact same problem. Were you abel to fix your own and
> if so, could you help me at all?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nicole

Reply to this Message