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JethroUK© - 16 Nov 2005 21:57 GMT

Is it possible to create a 'relative' path to the datasource?

or would you know where it keeps that path? so i can try

I would like all my mailmerges to be portable - but everytime i try them on
another machine i have to re-create all the paths to the datasource (which
is always in the same folder as the letters) - grrrrrr

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Graham Mayor - 17 Nov 2005 08:25 GMT

My tests (Word 2003) show that if the merge document cannot find its data
file in the saved location, it looks next in the folder containing the merge
document.

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> Is it possible to create a 'relative' path to the datasource?
>
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> datasource (which is always in the same folder as the letters) -
> grrrrrr

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JethroUK© - 17 Nov 2005 19:07 GMT

i'm using 2002 & it loses the data every time - but i take it there is no
access to the path

> My tests (Word 2003) show that if the merge document cannot find its data
> file in the saved location, it looks next in the folder containing the merge
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> > datasource (which is always in the same folder as the letters) -
> > grrrrrr

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Graham Mayor - 18 Nov 2005 06:52 GMT

If there is, I don't know it

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> i'm using 2002 & it loses the data every time - but i take it there
> is no access to the path
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>>> datasource (which is always in the same folder as the letters) -
>>> grrrrrr

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