Access and Word automation

[Kim Jonas Zahl]

Once upon a time, I made an Access application for a school I was working
for, in Access 2000.
Yesterday I got a call from them, telling me that they have upgraded from
Office 2000 to Office 2003, and my application didn't work properly anymore!

My application uses automation functions to create a list in a word
document, and then open a template document thet will use this list as a
record source for a mail-merge. This has worked perfectly, until they
upgraded! Now the same function tells them:
"4605 - This method or property is not available because the document is not
a mail merge main document."

I have tried just about everything I can think of, made a new document,
inserted new merge fields, and so on...

"Is there anybvody out there..." (!) who knows of an easy solution to my
problem? To me it looks as if this is an upgrade-compatibility problem, if
anyone knows otherwise, please tell me!

Any help will be highly appreciated, of course!



Jonas

 

[Cindy Meister]

Hi Kim

Since you don't give many details on how the document was set up in Word
(pre-linked to an Access data source? What kind of data connection method?),
it's hard to be sure. However, there were a couple of major changes to the
mail merge interface in Word 2002/2003, plus a couple of security measures,
that may be the cause of what you're seeing. Start here:

PRB: Prompted To Select a Data Source While Automating Word 2002 Mail Merge
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279462

"Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a
Word Document - 825765
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=825765

-- Cindy