[mso] Changing ODBC Connection in Mail Merge Document

  • From: "Bill Kalinowski" <Bill.Kalinowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:25:35 -0600

The company I am working for currently has about 35 Mail Merge forms. We =
are in the process of updating one of our systems and will soon have =
about 300. Here is the problem. The forms are developed with an ODBC =
connection pointing to the SQL Server in the test environment. When the =
forms are released to production the ODBC connection needs to be changed =
to point to the Production SQL Server. Is there a way to change the ODBC =
connection without going into all the forms and changing or a better way =
to develop the forms to make this dynamic? We have tried to change the =
ODBC connection information in the ODBC administrator but it appears =
that Word stores the ODBC connection information in the word document =
and does not verify it when the mail merge is executed.
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Thanks,
    Bill
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