Discovering current datasource

[Red Wren]

I have recently 'inherited' a mailmerge document which is linked to a access
data source.

The document is in desperate need of modernisation(as is the database), but
where it is so old, no-one can tell me where the datasource is actually held.


Can I work backwards from an existing mailmerge document to find the
datasource?? I seem to remember doing this is using Office 2003, but 2003 is
causing me a nightmare!

Microsoft- Revert back to the 2000 mailmerge wizard, PLEASE!!

 

[Doug Robbins]

You can reinstate the Mailmerge Helper from pre-XP versions of Word,

From the Tools menu, select Customize and in the Customize dialog, activate
the Commands tab and then select the All Commands category and then scroll
down through the list of commands until you find the Mailmerge Helper item.
Left click and drag it onto a menu or the toolbar.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UmVkIFdyZW4=?=,

The document is in desperate need of modernisation(as is the database), but
where it is so old, no-one can tell me where the datasource is actually held.


Can I work backwards from an existing mailmerge document to find the
datasource?? I seem to remember doing this is using Office 2003, but 2003 is
causing me a nightmare!

In Word 2002/2003 the best way to see the path to the data source is in the
Help/About/System Info list. Drill down the Office applications tree, to Word,
then Mail merge. All kinds of goodies in there

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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