Mail merger with Internet database

[Bob Thomason]

I would like to connect to an Access database located on a
web server to create my mail merge. Is this possible? What
would the connection string look like?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Bob,

I would like to connect to an Access database located on a
web server to create my mail merge. Is this possible?

No. Mail merge requires a "traditional" data source, saved
either locally or on a network location. You'd need to copy
the data source (as a simple HTML table, or delimitd text,
probably) to the user's machine, then link to it there.

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

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