Open Excel Workbook as Data Source

[Debbie S.]

I need Word 2002 to perform a mail merge to generate
letters and the source of the data is an open Excel
(2002) workbook where the data has just been calculated.
The workbook with the newly calculated data will not
be "resaved". Over in word I am not seeing data as it is
being changed in Excel, I am only seeing what was
originally stored (ie "saved") in the Excel workbook.

Is there any way to get Word to connect to the "live,
unsaved cells" (sorry about the non-technical terms) in
Excel and merge with that data?

Thanks
Debbie

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Debbie,

I need Word 2002 to perform a mail merge to generate
letters and the source of the data is an open Excel
(2002) workbook where the data has just been calculated.
The workbook with the newly calculated data will not
be "resaved". Over in word I am not seeing data as it is
being changed in Excel, I am only seeing what was
originally stored (ie "saved") in the Excel workbook.

Is there any way to get Word to connect to the "live,
unsaved cells" (sorry about the non-technical terms) in
Excel and merge with that data?

Tricky... If it works at all, it would have to be with a DDE
connection. By default, Word 2002 uses OLE DB to connect,
which only connects to the saved data.

Activate "confirm conversions on open" in
Tools/Options/General and you can specify the connection
method when opening the data source.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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