From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth

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Open a mail merge primary document

Open a mail merge primary document

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Open a mail merge primary document

- [Instructor] When you convert a Word document to a primary merge document, then the connection to the header record of the data source is part of that Word document. Notice that when I'm opening this primary document called Error Letter, it's looking for its data. It says data from your database will be placed in the document, do you want to continue and I'm going to say yes. Now it wants me to find that document, fortunately I know where that document is because error letter actually uses catalog requests as its data source. So I'm going to open it, it's an older document with some errors in it and here it is. What happens if I can't find that document? Let's try this again. If I open error letter again and it wants to find the data and I say do you want to continue. I can say no and it opens up the document but if I go to Mailings, Start Mail Merge, note this is a normal Word document it's no longer a Mail Merge document.…

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