Merging from Access database on server

[Sarah G]

I have created several Word merge documents to be used with an Access
database. The database and merge documents are located on a server that
multiple users can access. However, when other users try to use the merge
documents, they get warnings that the data source connection has been lost,
and they have to go through a series of steps to reset the database
connection. The files are all located in the same folder as the database and
have not been changed, moved, or renamed. I do not see these warning
messages and can use the files just as I created them. I would like to make
it so that they don't have to go through these extra steps every time they
open a merge document.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Which version of Word? What type of connection are you using (DDE, ODBC, OLE
DB)?

Are they seeing the SQL warning dialog (typically you need to change a
registry entry on each user's machine to make this go away)? Are they also
seeing other error messages?

Are all the users using the same path to access the documents, or are some
of them using (say) a network path mapped to a drive letter?