Take Mail Merge in Word back the the Mail Merge Helper 1,2,3 Form.

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Keith Pennock

The new mail merge wizard is an excellent example of making things more
complicated and thereby making it easier to clog up the drain. Take it back
to the simple format of the previous Mail Merge Helper that had Steps 1, 2 &
3.

All the best,
Keith Pennock
 
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Doug Robbins

You can do all that you need with the mail merge toolbar. To turn it on,
select Toolbars from the View menu and check the Mail Merge item.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Chris Green

Under W98 & 2000 I was able to set up an effective letters mail merge from
within Access, accessible to users in a single click once they had selected
the recipients list. With XP and Office 2003 the whole thing has fallen apart
- Word loses the access data source, the word data source selection dialog is
un-intuitive and opaque, data source queries in access are not listed for
selection, even when the data source is exported to an excel sheet, word
sees the workbook, but not the sheet containing the data.

Less concentration on copyright paranoia and more on ensuring customers get
the functional software they paid for would be helpful!
 
J

J.Reynolds

The new mailmerge wizard does not work when running a macro, but the old
wizard does.
 
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Doug Robbins

You can use the old one if you wish. Select Customize from the Tools menu
and in the All Commands category locate the Mail Merge Helper item and drag
it onto the menu or a toolbar.



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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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cam

Doug Robbins said:
You can use the old one if you wish. Select Customize from the Tools menu
and in the All Commands category locate the Mail Merge Helper item and drag
it onto the menu or a toolbar.



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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 

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