Mail merge default file location

[Johnnyboy5]

Can anyone help me out here ?

I have set up a folder on a pen drive which has

1 x spread sheet which contains “mail merge” data which is used to
populate

4 different WORD documents (templates)

My example of the files locations is :-

F:\ Care planning templates (and includes the spread sheet for the
mail merge data)

Everything is working great and all the fields fill in as they should
etc after I have found the data source !

The issues are :-

when the template is opened as a new document it asks for the location
of the data source and defaults to

Look in - “My data source” on the PC

or if the document just opens ? – with no request to merge the data
and I go to open the
“Open Data Source” it also defaults to

Look in - “My data source” on the PC

My need is that I would like it to “default” to find the spread sheet
location on my pen drive –

F:\0.1 Care planning templates

Please also consider that I need it all on the pen drive as I have to
“hot desk” all over the place !.

Thanks


Johnnyboy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AFAIK, there is no way to change the default data source location. If the
mail merge main document is firmly linked to a data source that is present
at the expected location, then you don't have to look, but if you have to
look, then you're going to start in that folder, period.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Can anyone help me out here ?

I have set up a folder on a pen drive which has

1 x spread sheet which contains “mail merge” data which is used to
populate

4 different WORD documents (templates)

My example of the files locations is :-

F:\ Care planning templates (and includes the spread sheet for the
mail merge data)

Everything is working great and all the fields fill in as they should
etc after I have found the data source !

The issues are :-

when the template is opened as a new document it asks for the location
of the data source and defaults to

Look in - “My data source” on the PC

or if the document just opens ? – with no request to merge the data
and I go to open the
“Open Data Source” it also defaults to

Look in - “My data source” on the PC

My need is that I would like it to “default” to find the spread sheet
location on my pen drive –

F:\0.1 Care planning templates

Please also consider that I need it all on the pen drive as I have to
“hot desk” all over the place !.

Thanks


Johnnyboy

 

[Johnnyboy5]

AFAIK, there is no way to change the default data source location. If the
mail merge main document is firmly linked to a data source that is present
at the expected location, then you don't have to look, but if you have to
look, then you're going to start in that folder, period.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org


Can anyone help me out here ?

I have set up a folder on a pen drive which has

1 x spread sheet which contains mail merge data which is used to
populate

4 different WORD documents (templates)

My example of the files locations is :-

F:\  Care planning templates (and includes the spread sheet for the
mail merge data)

Everything is working great and all the fields fill in as they should
etc after I have found the data source !

The issues are :-

when the template is opened as a new document it asks for the location
of the data source and defaults to

Look in -   My data source  on the PC

or if the document just opens ? with no request to merge the data
and I go to open the
Open Data Source it also defaults to

Look in -   My data source  on the PC

My need is that I would like it to default to find the spread sheet
location on my pen drive

F:\0.1 Care planning templates

Please also consider that I need it all on the pen drive as I have to
hot desk all over the place !.

Thanks

Johnnyboy

- so how do I make sure its "frimly" linked to that source in that
folder ?

many thanks

Johnnyboy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't know that you can when it's on a removable drive.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

AFAIK, there is no way to change the default data source location. If the
mail merge main document is firmly linked to a data source that is present
at the expected location, then you don't have to look, but if you have to
look, then you're going to start in that folder, period.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org


Can anyone help me out here ?

I have set up a folder on a pen drive which has

1 x spread sheet which contains mail merge data which is used to
populate

4 different WORD documents (templates)

My example of the files locations is :-

F:\ Care planning templates (and includes the spread sheet for the
mail merge data)

Everything is working great and all the fields fill in as they should
etc after I have found the data source !

The issues are :-

when the template is opened as a new document it asks for the location
of the data source and defaults to

Look in - My data source on the PC

or if the document just opens ? with no request to merge the data
and I go to open the
Open Data Source it also defaults to

Look in - My data source on the PC

My need is that I would like it to default to find the spread sheet
location on my pen drive

F:\0.1 Care planning templates

Please also consider that I need it all on the pen drive as I have to
hot desk all over the place !.

Thanks

Johnnyboy

- so how do I make sure its "frimly" linked to that source in that
folder ?

many thanks

Johnnyboy

 

[Johnnyboy5]

I don't know that you can when it's on a removable drive.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org





















- so how do I make sure its "frimly" linked to that source in that
folder ?

many thanks

Johnnyboy

ok thanks anyway...will try some other ideas ?

john