MDE and Mail Merging w/ Word

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I am using Access 2000 and Windows XP.

I am trying to make a mail merge in Word with an encrypted & secured (via
FAQ steps) MDE. When I try to select the MDE as a data source though,
instead of getting a list of queries and tables to select from, I get
gibberish. It seems to be reading the MDE as straight text, instead of as a
database. I think Word doesn't recognize the encrypted/secured format.

Does anyone know how to mail merge to an MDE, or make Word recognize that
the MDE is a database with tables and queries instead of a 'delimited' text
file of garble?

Thanks!

Nick
 
First get your mail merge working using an
unsecured database (MDE or MDB does not matter at
all, encrypted probably does not matter at all).

Then, to work with a secured database, you may wish
to use ODBC and a DSN (the dsn gives you somewhere
to put your username and password).

A good place to ask general questions about mailmerge is

microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

(david)
 
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