Header Record Delimiters: Data fields must be separated..

[michael]

I upgraded from Office 2002 SP2 to Office 2003. Now Word
prompts me to select the field and record delimiters when
I try to perform a merge.

The message: "Header record delimiters; data fields must
be separated from each other by a character called a
delimiter. Similarly data records must be separated by a
record delimiter. Use the list below to select the
appropriate delimiter"

This also occurs with Office XP 2000 Pro. Any ideas why a
merge performs seamlessly with 2002 SP2, but not with 2000
or 2003 XP?

Thanks!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Michael,

We need a bit more information. I assume this is a text file?
What field and record delimiters are you using?

What is the text file named (I'm interested in the
extension)?

If you activate "Confirm conversions on open" in
Tools/Options/General you should get a list of connection
methods after choosing the data source file name. What is
selected here as the default? What other selections are
listed?

And if you check this list in Word 2000? (Note: activate the
"Select method" checkbox in the Open Data source dialog box)

I upgraded from Office 2002 SP2 to Office 2003. Now Word
prompts me to select the field and record delimiters when
I try to perform a merge.

The message: "Header record delimiters; data fields must
be separated from each other by a character called a
delimiter. Similarly data records must be separated by a
record delimiter. Use the list below to select the
appropriate delimiter"

This also occurs with Office XP 2000 Pro. Any ideas why a
merge performs seamlessly with 2002 SP2, but not with 2000
or 2003 XP?

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

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