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Jason - 19 Sep 2005 17:14 GMT

I had a data source that got saved as a main doc, how can I change it back to
a data source?

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Doug Robbins - 19 Sep 2005 18:33 GMT

As long as the document contains data in the form of a table with the first
row of the table being the names of the mergefields, it can be used as a
datasource.

You cannot specifically save any file, other than a main doc, as a main doc.
So, I am not really sure what you think that you did.

If what you have is a document full of labels that you would like to convert
to a data source, then:

See "Convert Labels into Mail Merge Data File" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at:

http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm

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>I had a data source that got saved as a main doc, how can I change it back
>to
> a data source?

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Jason - 19 Sep 2005 22:06 GMT

That's what I thought but no every time I try to open the data source as a
data source I get an error message telling me that the data source cannot be
opened because it is not a data source and something about headers

> As long as the document contains data in the form of a table with the first
> row of the table being the names of the mergefields, it can be used as a
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> >to
> > a data source?

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Doug Robbins - 19 Sep 2005 23:13 GMT

Well in that case, you should open it as a regular Word document and insert
a row at the top of the table into which you enter names that can serve as
the field names

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> That's what I thought but no every time I try to open the data source as a
> data source I get an error message telling me that the data source cannot
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>> >to
>> > a data source?

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