[mso] Access people...can you help here?...(was yet another Mail Merge problem)
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:41:39 -0400
Ok, ric...I guess I'm gonna have to pass this one off to someone who does
more merges with queries than me...I usually just import stuff from Access
into Excel and use Excel for my data source for merges, just cuz I prefer
Excel for this stuff...I've added Access to the subject line of this thread
so maybe the people in here who know Access better than me can chime
in...they are probably ignoring this one, thinking it's just about Word.
Sorry...it seemed to me that the query should stick, but maybe Merges to
Access only remember tables and not queries.
Anyone out there do Mail Merges with Access queries as your data source? Is
it possible to make the merge document remember the link to the query? Sure
seems like it should.
Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Richard Plecenik
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:20 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: yet another Mail Merge problem
Linda....when I open the document I see the merge fields, e.g.
<LastName>. If I then press the 'View Merged Data' button, I get data
from the table, not the query. As I said, at this point I can use the
'Open Data Source' button or the Mail Merge Helper to point to the
query. Now when I look at the data, it comes from the query. But when I
close and re-open the document, (I'm looking at the merge fields again)
I'm linked to the table and I have to relink the query. This happens on
3 different computers, with 3 different OS's (I forgot Win98 in my first
message) and 2 versions of Office.
ric
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