Use just Word? or Word/Excel?

[dp]

Using Word 2003, Windows 2000 Professional. Someone set up a main document
(letter) in Word and a data file in Excel. The data file changes each time
(different notices to different people). Is there any benefit to having both
files in Word instead of one in each - or isn't there any difference.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It could be argued that Word is happiest with its merge data stored in a
Word table; but it will quite happily merge from a variety of formats
including Excel, so provided you don't have any odd formatting issues
related to your Excel data source, I would leave it as it stands.

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[dp]

Thank you!

It could be argued that Word is happiest with its merge data stored in a
Word table; but it will quite happily merge from a variety of formats
including Excel, so provided you don't have any odd formatting issues
related to your Excel data source, I would leave it as it stands.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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