Re: Merged Word Documents VERY SLOW to open

Peter,

Thanks so much for responding. I was thinking the same thing. Next week I
will be back in their server and I will see what template is attached to the
document. Do you think it would be a hard thing to automate through vba a
way to attach the correct template or at least the normal.dot?
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CLG


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Although Word may spend time looking for a missing/moved data source, for
mmay data source types it will fail to connect straight away if the source
is no longer there. A more likely cause of the perfroance problem is that
the Mail merge Main Documents are attached to templates that Word can no
longer find - if you can attach the correct template before resaving the
document it may speed things up the next time you open. Also, I suppose a
missing template could be a cause of your missing toolbar problem (although
it wouldn't explain why you can't get the toolbar back).

Unfortunately there is no real way to programmatically change a Word
MailMerge document's data source without opening the document (unless the
documents happen to have been saved in .rtf, or .html format. It's probably
too late now to do what you really needed to do, i.e. programmatically open
all the documents while the data sources were still in their original
places, save the info. about the data source, then deatch the source and
programmatically re-attach after the network changes (but frankly, even that
isn't particularly straightforward). I only mention it in case you can
rename anything on the network to recreate the names you had previously.


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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Legal Learning" <LegalLearning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:37CA7E78-F75B-494F-8033-BD7F8E626CAE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Using Word 2002.

Here is what is happening.

Documents that have been previously merged using an Excel data source that
lived on a File server. No problems opening these merged documents UNTIL:

File Server was replaced. Now these document (thousands of documents by
the
way) take up to 5 minutes to open. I am sure it is looking for the data
source on the old file server and not the new one.

The Mail Merge toolbar is also missing in action. I looked in
Tools/Customize to see if it appears there, under the Tools/View/Toolbar
as
well as the Letters and Mailing. When choosing Show Mail Merge toolbar,
it
simply ignores the command and does not display the toolbar.

After document is finally opened, I have re-associate the document to the
data source (which is now on the new server) and merge the information
again
and save it and close it. However, it takes the same amount of time to
re-open it!

I have checked to make sure it is a regular Word document also.

This is an enormous problem for the company as there are thousands of
documents like this.

I created a new mail merge document based on the data base that was on the
old server and is now on the new server. The document opens without any
issue.

I appreciate ANY help at all here as we are at our wit's end!

Thanks for any help.
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CLG


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