>>Getting this error:
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>>Error: 1429 OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from Microsoft Word: Word was unable to open the data source..."
>>

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>>It hits on the OpenDataSource line in this code:
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>>WITH .ActiveDocument.MailMerge
>>	.OpenDataSource(m_temp_dir+'FeeSlip.dbf')
>>	.Execute()
>>ENDWITH
>>

>>
>>The directory and FeeSlip table are available and in scope at that point of the code, and there is a populated record in the table. Word has already opened a doc and it is mostly populated, other than merge fields at the top of the document. These fields are supposed to be filled by the records in the table.
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>>I don't have much OLE experience, at least not with Word (some Excel) so does anyone have any thoughts in what I should be looking at? Thanks!
>
>I'm not 100% certain but I think we had the same problem occasionally. The solution was a simple retry, I believe.
>
>I'll try to find out more details from my former colleague.

This happens every time I run it. I have not tried this code on my machine before, but it works fine for other developers and in production.