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Subject:Word 7.0 - mail merge bug??? From:Jane Easley <JEasley -at- EAST -dot- DIALOG -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:22:00 E
I have recently moved from Word 6 to Word 7. I have come across a
possible bug using Mail Merge to create labels. I'm wondering if anyone
has a workaround.
This is what happened... I accidentally designated a document as the main
document when I really wanted to use this particular document as the data
source. It seems that once a doc is designated as a main document, there
is no way to use that document as a data source. I have tried renaming
it, saving the file as another name, and other similar gymnastics. I'm
pretty sure this wasn't a problem in Word 6.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Jane
jeasley -at- apollo -dot- east -dot- dialog -dot- com
