Opening MailMerge Doc with Office 2003

[Kevin McBride]

I've run into a curious problem when automating a
document from Office 2003. I've tried this with VB6 and
VB.NET with the same result.

I have a mail merge document, with the data source saved,
and I open the document using something like:

Dim wrdApp as New Word.Application
wrdApp.Open(FileName:="MailMerge.Doc")
wrdApp.Visible = True

When the document is opened, it's opened as a Normal Word
Document, it's no longer a Mail Merge Letter. We use the
wrdDocument.MailMerge.State to return the document type,
and do special processing on Mail Merge docs.

Oddly, if I close Word, and open the document directly,
without automation, it opens as a MailMerge doc. This
only seems to happen with Office 2003, not with Office
2002 or 2000. Any idea's would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Replied to duplicate question in the word.mailmerge.fields
group...

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

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