Each time I open a mail merge document in Word, I get a pop up message asking if I want to place data in my document. I'm sure your familiar with it. Is there a way to just have the document open without the questioning? Once the data is linked to the document, it should stay that way almost permanently. I am refreshing that data daily with an export from Microsoft Access which creates rtf merge files.

There you go. Let me know if you can help.



Thanks,

Paul

There are ways of suppressing that message via a registry edit, but they're user-specific and not document-specific. See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/825765

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Not an option for me. I'm passing this work onto others who will be using their own computers. I won't be allowed to change the registry on their computers.

Unless you intend the others to run the mailmerge, you shouldn't be doing that - you should only send the merged output. And, if you are intending them to do run the mailmerge, it's only reasonable they get the prompt so they are alerted to what's going on and can choose whether to allow the document to establish a connection to the datasource.

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I am upgrading an Access database that that exports mail merge data to be used by Word. When I am finished, the whole process will be handed over to the end user and I'll likely never touch it again. I just thought it would be cleaner for the file to open and then let the end user do the mail merge after previewing the data, but at the end of the day it's just one extra click. I just thought there might be an easy way around it.