Connecting to an ODBC Source for a Word Merge

[frustrated QA]

When I try to connect to an ODBC data source to do a Word merge I get an
error. It is often "Record 1 contains too few data fields" popping up
several times, although the error varries depending on how I try to connect.

This is using Office XP, Office 2000 works fine.

It happens with most ODBC sources but cvs works fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

You may want to also post this in the Word Mailmerge group
(link below) and include the version of Windows you're using
and the steps you're following to setup the merge.

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When I try to connect to an ODBC data source to do a Word merge I get an
error. It is often "Record 1 contains too few data fields" popping up
several times, although the error varries depending on how I try to connect.

This is using Office XP, Office 2000 works fine.

It happens with most ODBC sources but cvs works fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions? >>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
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A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
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B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com