>I am trying to do a Word Mail Merge with a VFP .dbf free table as my data source. I select dBase files (there is no VFP option) as my data source file type. The merge will not work if the .dbf has a date field. I am assuming that there is a compatibility problem between dBase and VFP dates. Does anyone know how I can create a dBase compatible date in VFP?
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>Thanks
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>Brenda

The Word Mail Merge returned "Word was unable to open the data source" because the date field was marked as able to accept NULL vales. When I changed the date field to NOT NULL, the merged worked fine.