Re: Word 2007 mailmerge

The only comments I can really provide are in the area of connectivity and assuming your existing code works OK in Word 2003 there have been few if any obvious changes to e.g. OpenDataSource, but numerous changes in behaviour - some of these may be related to Vista rather than Office, and some may even be Vista-64 "specials", but e.g.
a. it seems to be difficult to specify a DDE connection in code now
b. it seems to be difficult to specify an ODBC connection, certainly to Excel
c. on Vista, the default folder for Data Sources is now some kind of "search folder" that does not appear to pick up data sources recently saved in the former default folder, i.e. the user's My Data Sources folder
d. Word will now tend to default to using the ACE provider rather than the Jet provider it used previously, e.g. for Access, Excel, and some delimited text file connections. (OTTOMH I couldn't point you to a negative consequence of this, but the handling of ODBC may be one)
e. many "file type" data sources located on network drives appear to be copied to local temp folders; if the user updates the data source in Edit recipients, Word will typically fail when trying to save the data source, prompting the user with the temp file name rather than the original.
f. as far as I can tell, Access/ACE has reverted to the idea that Jet SQL is the norm and it does not appear to be possible or easy to switch on SQL-92(?) as in previous versions - this has a potential impact on the handling of queries with wildcard characters.
g. the XML in .odc now has a published schema and is different from previous versions. However, Word still seems to maintain its idiosyncratic interpretation of .odc
h. not sure .udl works any more in Vista


If your code hasn't been updated since (say) Word 2000 then there are quite a lot more differences.


Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

Markus wrote:
I've had an app working for some time that allows users to create a template word .doc file, picking fields from a table to merge from inside Word, then using that template to generate multiple letters inside the app.

I am having problems getting this to work in Word 2007. There have been multiple problems with the same code that has worked so well thru many previous Word versions. I am not looking for specific advise on each problem (yet), but general guidelines (if possible) for using mailmerge 07 over the way it functioned in previous versions.

Can anyone outline some of the changes in mailmerge from previous versions that I will need to consider in changing my code? Maybe someone has had to update their app to use 07 for mailmerges and can give me some general guidelines?

Thanks for any and all ideas on this,
Mark
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