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Merge with an Access table or query

Merge with an Access table or query

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Merge with an Access table or query

- [Instructor] It's very easy to use an Access Date Source with Word, as a matter of fact, we've already done that, we just didn't know it. If I go to Select Recipients, and choose Use An Existing List, you'll notice that the data source that we created in the last movie is actually saved as a Microsoft Access Data Source, but that's not the one I want. I want to go to where my Exercise Files live and in the Chapter 01 folder you'll find Customers which is an Access Database that has a single table in it. If I click Open, I have just selected that as my Data Source, it looks like nothing happened but if I click Edit Recipient List, here are my customers from the Customers Table. Again, this is a database with only one table which is a little unusual, what if my database was more complex? So let's go back to Select Recipients, Use An Existing List and return to the Exercise Files folder and I'm going to choose the Students…

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