Re: Publisher catelog merge- cannot open data source file


Take a look at your MDAC components. Be certain you have no mismatched .dlls.
There is a component checker here:
MDAC Utility: Component Checker
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8f0a8df6-4a21-4b43-bf53-14332ef092c9

All the MDAC downloads are here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937730.aspx

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"kmkw" <kmkw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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more- I may have copied a phone number from outlook in the excel source file
since the lst time I ran the merge.

"kmkw" wrote:

I am using Publisher 2003 and the data source is an Excel file. I am using
catelog merge feature. The original template hsa been in use for over a
year. I update once a month or so- first time I have had a problem. I may
have added a column to the origianl source file, but started a new publisher
setup document and copied the *** to a new excel file, incase of
corruption. same error message.

Only connection to outlook is I copied a field from the excel file to an
outlook message earlier today, but deleted the field I copied before the
message was sent.

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

This article has a solution:
You receive a "The operation cannot be completed because of dialog or data
base
engine failures" error message when you try to perform a mail merge by
using an
Outlook 2003 contact folder in Publisher 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908474/en-us

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"kmkw" <kmkw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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whether I try to open the source file or open a new one, I get the
message:
operation cannot be completed becasue of dialog or database engine
failures.
Please try again later.

Troubleshooting advice suggestd to undate the engine from Windows
update -
can't find it.

Does anyone have more specific troubleshooting advice?





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