Opening a Mail Merge Main Document in .Net project.

[Colin Halliday]

I have a Word 2003 mail merge main document (form letter) that is linked to
another Word document data source for the mail merge.

If I open this doc using the Word GUI, it first asks me to confirm that I
want to run a query to select the data from the data source file, then it
opens the form letter fine. I can preview the merged records and complete a
merge to a new document.

I have a VB 2006 project (.net framework 2.0) which opens the same form
letter in code like this:

aplWord.Documents.Open(mstrFormLetter)

mstrFormLetter is a string variable that holds the path to the document.

This does open the form letter and displays it in Word, but it is no longer
a mail merge main document. I have to manually link it to the data source
before I can merge. Once I close the doc and open it manually in Word it is
a main document still and asks me to confirm that I want to select the data
from the data source again.

What else do I need to do in my code to open it ready for the mail merge??

Thanks.

 

[Colin Halliday]

BTW, it is not a VSTO project, just a normal Windows Forms VB project.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You probably need to look at the following
article

"Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a
Word Document"

at

http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765

Peter Jamieson

BTW, it is not a VSTO project, just a normal Windows Forms VB project.