#Office 2016 mail merge to xlsx file update#
doc, update the links,Ītl+F9, you will see the new path refernece for that link. Close both files, copy both files to some other path on your computer. doc file (even out of Word 2010, it does not matter), add a link from Excel (here it does not matter whether. docx, while it doesn't matter if the source is an xls or xlsx file. This adjustment of paths seems to only work with 2003-2007 Word doc (.doc) not anymore with. When we save the Word it gets saved with the new paths to the links.īut I figured out another thing. This way we can use that pair as a template and always modify to our needs the copied excel of the copied pair of files This happens as long beside the Word file with the links there is an Excel file with the same name as the original Excel file had. When we copy these two files to another folder the links get updated to the new excel in this new folder. Being unabvle to make the mail merge documents now sets me back considerably if I have to reinvent the wheel, which if you recall from all your help over the years, was complex at times.We are having a pair of files (Word + Excel) with lots of links in Word to some Excel sources as "template"
#Office 2016 mail merge to xlsx file pro#
I'm kind of concerned as my new initiative is to make interactive forms using Adobe Pro from the mail merged documents.
I can work with them at home, but no longer at school. Is the issue now on my side, with my documents? Are they useless now? If I recreate them, would I still have the same problem? The data and mail merge documents are not on the computer, they are on a thumbdrive that I use between my school computer and my home computer allowing me to work with the documents at both. (Begs to question why our IT left 2010 in when they installed 2016 way back). I do know they installed Adobe Pro, and uninstalled Office 2010 that for some reason was residing in my computer alongside Office 2016. If I challenge them with that they are apt to take it away for me. The type of document we’re creating today is in a letter format, so let’s continue on by clicking Next in the bottom. This will walk us through the process one step at a time using the Mail Merge tool pane on the right. I don't know what that means to me and the future of my mail merges.įar beit for me to approach our IT people as a lackie and tell them they botched up the update of Office on my computer. To begin, first we will go to the Mailings tab, then click Start Mail Merge and select Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard. So, I wonder if that is a significant contributing factor. Last night the IT department did some things to my computer, including the removal of Office 2010 from it as Office 2016 was also installed. xlsx file in the file you show in the video. Is anyone able to tell me what has gone wrong? Everything worked as expected for months before today. Diane: I have copied the vba text as shown above in my Outlook sessions and even put the test. I have no idea what is going on as DATA.xls is not a workbook, and not the workbook I referenced to find the data. The workbook field is populated with "U:\Education\Schools\School Admin\Timetables\Dates\DATA.xls" in the window I would expect to see the worksheet DATA (the source of the mail merge data 'DATA$'), it is empty. (The file exists where it is supposed to be!), and press OPEN. xlsx and navigate to and select the source file from it's directory. The File Name is populated with "May-25 (Sat) schedule_5". It's source directory is defaulted to "C:\Users\me\Documents\My Data Sources" and lists two. I press the FIND DATA SOURCE button, and the Select Data Source dialogue open. Word cannot find its data source, U:\Education\.\Dates\Data\May-25 (Sat) schedule_5.xlsx "FR15NG.docx" is a mail merge main document. "Error has occured: Class not registered." SELECT * FROM 'DATA$' WHERE 'TYPE' = 'FR'ĭata from your database will be placed in the document. "Opening this document will run the following SQL command: When I open the document, I am greeting with. xlsx data I use with my mail merge document.
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