Hi Dan,

Has anybody found a better way than editing the Registry, like say passing a code or something?

I do not find it to brilliant when you sell an application that does mail merge and users have to edit the registry themselves!!!

Raymond


>Hi Randy.
>
>Check out MSKB #825765 - "Opening This Will Run the Following SQL Command" Message When You Open a Word Document
>
>-Dan
>
>>I have some document assembly automation code for Word that performs up to 15 individual mail merges, then assembles the results. When run with Word 2003 you get a dialog for each merge:
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>>Opening this document will run the following SQL Command:
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>>SELECT * FROM H:\HDS\TEST\SERVOBJ.DLW
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>>Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue?
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>>If not responded to promptly, you then get "Word was unable to perform the command because a dialog box was open"
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>>A google search hints at a registry fix for this problem, but doesn't say what the key or value is. I've got a call into Microsoft support, so if I find it first I'll share it here.