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Jonathan - 03 Mar 2006 17:16 GMT

Guess what, I just got WD2003 ...
Mail merge in WD2002 remembered my source file used at Step 3 if I wanted to
do a second merge, but now when I complete the last step and start another
merge going, I need to Browse for the source. Again.
Am I missing a setting in Tools > Options or something else?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 03 Mar 2006 19:08 GMT

Did you save the mailmerge main document with the data source attached to
it?

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> Guess what, I just got WD2003 ...
> Mail merge in WD2002 remembered my source file used at Step 3 if I wanted
> to
> do a second merge, but now when I complete the last step and start another
> merge going, I need to Browse for the source. Again.
> Am I missing a setting in Tools > Options or something else?

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Jonathan - 06 Mar 2006 15:05 GMT

Thank you for your prompt reply. I've been revisiting what I was doing to
make sure I wasn't overlooking something obvious.
Saving the main doc with or without the data source is important? Even when
I experimented and did that, the 'Use an existing list' option still says
Browse without offering the last one I used. When I do a straight merge of a
new doc with an existing database, WD2003's Browse never offers one used
earlier, while in WD2002 it did. Unless I've missed a Tools > Options setting
or something?

> Did you save the mailmerge main document with the data source attached to
> it?
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> > merge going, I need to Browse for the source. Again.
> > Am I missing a setting in Tools > Options or something else?

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