Do you have any trouble using ODBC in any other instance? Dave
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Microsoft Word Mail Merge Error
Not to my knowledge. We pass information to and from UPS's Worldship program using ODBC and don't seem to have a problem. I only get this message by using the steps in MC Press's Office 2000 integration book in which the "open data source" selection of the data source option is used. I looking at other topics in the Microsoft Forum I saw a link to a "Midrange Server" article and tried that method. That method instructed the use of the "new data source" selection. It looks as though the file information is pulled into the "Mail Merge Helper" but will not allow selection of merge fields. Jerry
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Microsoft Word Mail Merge Error
In trying to insert information from the AS/400 to a Word document through Mail Merge; I opened the ODBC data source name, selected MS Query, selected the file, selected * for all fields, selected "Return to Microsoft Word" option, and received the error message "Word was unable to open the data source". Don't know where to go from here. Can anyone help?
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Microsoft Word Mail Merge Error
Another solution is place an MS Access database between MS Word Mail Merge and AS/400 data. Create an Access database with Tables linked to AS/400 via ODBC. Create queries to pull data together; much easier that trying to do this in MS Word. Use Access database as source for Mail Merge. This has been MS problem for quite some time.
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