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Alan.B
I have an issue with mail merges and data sources not
being found.
I have two PC's at my desk, 1 of which was recently
upgraded from Word 97 operating under NT4 to Word 2002
running on XP Professional (the other PC is still
operating with Word 97 on NT). We also recently migrated
from Novell Servers to Win2000 Servers though this has not
had any effect.
When running a macro on Word97 to create a *Catalog* I
have no issues whatsoever, however XP is causing grief.
Both the main document and the data source are located
within the same folder on a server. Normal.dot is also
held on this server but at a different location. Both
Word97 and 2002 refer to the same Normal.dot. The macro
opens the main document and commands the merge.
When the *Directory* merge is run on XP I get the
following message "0900 Master.doc is a mail merge main
document. Word Cannot find its data source,
N:\Docfiles\0900DATA\900Clean.txt." then 2 buttons - "Find
Data Source" or "Options" (Options allows the removal of
the data source - not wanted).
When I find the data source after having to navigate from
My Documents\My Data Source (the default folder offered)
and locate 900Clean.txt in the same folder as my source
document, try to run the merge again I get the same
message "0900 Master.doc is a mail merge main document..."
As noted Word97 continues to work fine, and must continue
to work as other team members will continue to use NT
until the XP issues are sorted, though I have tried
recreating the main document to trial under XP alone and
still the same message.
So two questions
Can the data source be defined to look at a specific
folder - relative path?? - by default other than "My Data"?
What possible differences in how XP/Word2002 handles
*Catalogs* would cause the data source not to be found
when in XP. Do I have to specify UNC paths for XP but not
NT??
Thanks in advance to all who can help
being found.
I have two PC's at my desk, 1 of which was recently
upgraded from Word 97 operating under NT4 to Word 2002
running on XP Professional (the other PC is still
operating with Word 97 on NT). We also recently migrated
from Novell Servers to Win2000 Servers though this has not
had any effect.
When running a macro on Word97 to create a *Catalog* I
have no issues whatsoever, however XP is causing grief.
Both the main document and the data source are located
within the same folder on a server. Normal.dot is also
held on this server but at a different location. Both
Word97 and 2002 refer to the same Normal.dot. The macro
opens the main document and commands the merge.
When the *Directory* merge is run on XP I get the
following message "0900 Master.doc is a mail merge main
document. Word Cannot find its data source,
N:\Docfiles\0900DATA\900Clean.txt." then 2 buttons - "Find
Data Source" or "Options" (Options allows the removal of
the data source - not wanted).
When I find the data source after having to navigate from
My Documents\My Data Source (the default folder offered)
and locate 900Clean.txt in the same folder as my source
document, try to run the merge again I get the same
message "0900 Master.doc is a mail merge main document..."
As noted Word97 continues to work fine, and must continue
to work as other team members will continue to use NT
until the XP issues are sorted, though I have tried
recreating the main document to trial under XP alone and
still the same message.
So two questions
Can the data source be defined to look at a specific
folder - relative path?? - by default other than "My Data"?
What possible differences in how XP/Word2002 handles
*Catalogs* would cause the data source not to be found
when in XP. Do I have to specify UNC paths for XP but not
NT??
Thanks in advance to all who can help