mail-merge from W2003 to Access 97 lost its link - broken by Windows Update?

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Les Desser

I have been using Word for many years to mail merge some Word docs using
a table in Access 97.

Neither the docs nor the Access database have changed in years.

Currently using Word2003.

Since the last use a month or two ago, when I now open the Word doc I
get a pop-up "Opening this document will run the following SQL command
..... Do you want to continue?"

I click Yes

Next pop-up: "... Word cannot find its data source ...."

I then try and navigate to the source and get a "not authorised" error
which I know is not true and the loop repeats.

I tried this on two machines - both same results. One is running XP and
the other W7-64 bit.

I then went to an old PC running W2000 and Word 2000 and it all worked
as normal.

Any idea what has happened?
 

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