>>" you have to have ODBC set up on the client machine to attach to a data source" I would disagree. I posted here a few times I believe, mailmerge samples, not using ODBC but VFPOLEDB. Even if, suppose you can't directly connect to VFP data, you can simply create a txt file as a 'data source', or directly write to a mailmerge documents' data document.
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>Yeah, we wrote the book in 1999 and 2000.
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>Tamar

That makes sense Tamar. Around those years, I also remember posting here complaints about Office team breaking code with their updates and problems with ODBC access to VFP data (ended with a tab delimited text file data as a workaround if I remember right).