dBase IV Mail Merge help

[Anthony]

I need to merge into Word a file which has an Excel icon
and under properties says it is an Excel file but is
saved as a dBase IV file and has a *.dbf extension.

If I save it as an Excel (*.xls) file to do this, the
software program that writes to it every day, can't do
this, and as I need to access the mail merge evey time it
is written to, I need the file to remain a *.dbf file.

Does anyone know if/how I can do this?

Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Anthony,

Please look at your original thread, where I've followed up.
You do have to have some patience in peer-to-peer
newsgroups: the people who help out here do it in their free
time...

I need to merge into Word a file which has an Excel icon
and under properties says it is an Excel file but is
saved as a dBase IV file and has a *.dbf extension.

If I save it as an Excel (*.xls) file to do this, the
software program that writes to it every day, can't do
this, and as I need to access the mail merge evey time it
is written to, I need the file to remain a *.dbf file.

Does anyone know if/how I can do this?

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

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