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Mailmerge no longer works with Word 2003

I have an application which does a lot of reports (letters) by automation
with Word. The mail merge main document is a Word template and I transfer a
text file out to a prenamed filename to act as the data source, then open a
..doc file from the template. The template has the name of the data file as
its data source. All worked fine in Word 2000 and Word 2002, but all of a
sudden, with Word 2003, I get an error message that says "This method or
property is not available because the document is not a mail merge main
document.". There is a Letter1 window opened, showing what looks like my
original template mailmerge main document - I can see the <<fieldname>>
symbols in it, but the mailmerge toolbar is all greyed out. Has anyone else
experienced this problem. My original templates were created in Word 2000
and the Access database that I do the automation from is also A2k. This is
really annoying as I can't say to people, sorry, it doesn't work if you
install Office 2003.

dixie
Nov 12 '05 #1
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