Can't Find Installable ISAM message

[w]

In an emergency, I installed Word 2000 on the D drive of a
computer already running Word 7.0 on the C drive. Even
though I tried to keep 'em separated, W2K still made a lot
of trouble for W7, and a biggie is that now NEITHER
version recognizes dBaseIII+ databases for merge purposes.
When I open a merge document, I get the "Can't Find
Installable ISAM" message, and am prevent from opening the
document. I can live without W2K recognizing my dBases,
but I'm not about to export them all to Excel and then re-
link all my W7 merge documents to those Excel files, and
re-insert each of the merge fields. Where can I get the
ISAM file Word is looking for, or how can I trick it into
thinking this ISAM is already wherever it's supposed to be?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Although the following KB article may not describe your scenario exactly and
the information about the MDAC versions on the MS web site is probably way
out of date, it may give you some clues on how to deal with this situation:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;237284

Alternatively, you could try checking "Select method" in the Open Data
Source dialog box when you select your .dbf, and try the various different
connection methods available. There are two different ODBC drivers for "dbf
data" - there is a dBase driver, which I think will work with dBASE III, IV
and 5.0 files, and a FoxPro driver, which is confusingly presented in two
versions, "dBase Files - Word" and "FoxPro Files - Word". The FoxPro driver
documentation claims that it gives you access to "Microsoft(r) FoxBase+(r),
FoxPro 1.x, FoxPro 2.x and Visual FoxPro tables. Also, the Visual FoxPro
ODBC Driver allows you to access tables that are in a Visual FoxPro database
container (.DBC file)."