[mso] Re: word mail merge no longer working from access
- From: bccamper@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:33:46 -0700
Hi Cathy,
I had troubles with my email this morning so accept my apologies if you get
this
twice.
Thanks for your email. I am so greatful. I printed off the first URL and will
try the
instructions and see how it goes.
I have a quick question. As I said I have had troubles getting help on this but
any
help I did get always involved coding in VBA. How we did (actually it was done
before I started working on the database), was in the properties of the button
we
click on to display the word doc, the hyperlink address is set to the name of
the word
document. This seemed to work great so I never imagined having to write code to
do it. I have avout 140 documents so it may be a lot of coding.
When I first started working on the database it wasn't split so I can't say
100% that it
worked after we split it, but it was quite a while ago, and I would be
surprised if we
did test a mail merge somewhere in that time.
Thanks again for your input.
On 21 Sep 2005 at 15:03, Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> If you are opening the document already from access, which gets its source
> from the DB query, you could remove the data source in the word documents
> and place bookmarks instead, sending the data from access to word via
> bookmark method. That will eliminate the link problem. There are several
> methods and lots of sample databases with different approaches out there.
>
> Here are some links you may want to check out, see if any of them point you
> in the right direction. If not, please provide further details about how
> you are calling your word form from access and how your link/merge is
> currently set up.
>
> Thanks, Cathy
>
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/excerpt/acsckbk/?page=2
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> http://www.helenfeddema.com/CodeSamples.htm (samples middway down page)
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> http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=85&Number=607239&Forum=&Words=merge&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=606672&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=4654&daterange=0&newerval=1&newertype=m&olderval=&oldertype=#Post607239&bodyprev=
> (sample DB towards end of thread)
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> I have found it very difficult to find answers with anything to do with MS
> Word mail merge together with MS Access. I have an access database, where
> I click on a button and it opens up a MS Word Mail Mege Document. I can
> then mege the document which gets its source from a query in the DB. So far
>
> so good. I have read many times that ou should split your database, for
> obvious reasons. When I split the database, the word docs can no longer
> find
> the source and the merge buttons are greyed out. Does anyone know the
> problem, or where I can get some useful information about using Access and
> Mail Merge together. We thought about moving things back into reports in
> the DD, but some of the word merges are letters, where the client can
> freely
> type what ever type of leter they want.
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