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Hello, can you close the 'Find data source' windows and continue in the documet? If so sounds like you need to go to 'Mailings' on the ribbon and go to the mailing wizard or start mailing wizard and remove the data source.<br />
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Hello, can you close the 'Find data source' windows and continue in the documet? If so sounds like you need to go to 'Mailings' on the ribbon and go to the mailing wizard or start mailing wizard and remove the data source.

Regards
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Cannot do that... keep getting errors and finally it dies.
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Cannot do that... keep getting errors and finally it dies.

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Do you have any information about this document, such as old merge docs made from it? &nbsp;It may need to be recreated if you can't find the data source, or open the merge document.
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Do you have any information about this document, such as old merge docs made from it?  It may need to be recreated if you can't find the data source, or open the merge document.

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All of a sudden we are getting the error message below when opening a particular Word document:<br />
&nbsp;<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/09_w38/500333/wordError.JPG" target="_blank" title="Word 2007 Error Message (35 KB)"><img alt="Word 2007 Error Message" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 570px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/09_w38/500333/wordError.JPG" /></a>Clicking the button allows us to search for the source... how would we know where to start searching? &nbsp;We inherited this from someone. &nbsp;The datasource (database) could be anywhere?
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All of a sudden we are getting the error message below when opening a particular Word document:
 
Clicking the button allows us to search for the source... how would we know where to start searching?  We inherited this from someone.  The datasource (database) could be anywhere?

Missing Word 2007 datasource

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.