Re: Office Pro XP Mail Merge

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From: Cindy M -WordMVP- (C.Meister-C_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:09:05 +0200

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> I am using office pro XP. When using mail merge between word and access (data source) work can't open the query with the data. I had this working previously, but now the system fails.
>
In what way does it fail? Are you getting an error message? What's the exact wording?

Do you know whether you're connecting using OLE DB, DDE or ODBC?

Are you able to link to other tables or queries in the same database?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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