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Data Source to use

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Victor Lazlo - 11 May 2006 23:48 GMT
Working with Word merge and MS Access 2002 which would be the best data
source when linking a query to merge documents, OLE, DDE or ODBC??
Cindy M  -WordMVP- - 12 May 2006 11:28 GMT
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> Working with Word merge and MS Access 2002 which would be the best data
> source when linking a query to merge documents, OLE, DDE or ODBC??

Depends to a certain extent on the type of query, and whether the database
is set to ANSI-89 or ANSI-92. For "plain" SELECT queries and ANSI-89 use
ODBC. For ANSI-92, use OLE DB. For "prompt" queries use DDE.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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