Out of curiosity, when the connection is being made to the datasource, that is being done thru an ODBC type connection setup in the ODBC Data source manager right? If it is what is the path of that data source set to? Is the path different then the path that is being set? I guess what I am trying to ask is the mail merge looking at the original datasource of the ODBC connect?

Scott

>I have a client who is now using Word 2003
>to run VFP automated Mail Merges. They manually
>connect the Mail Merge Data Source to the Word DOC and
>save that connection. Next, they use VFP to call up
>Word 2003, hand it the letter name, and tell Word to merge.
>They are finding that Word 2003 forgets its Data Source
>(an Excel Spreadsheet) and they have to go back into the
>letter and reconnect to the XLS.
>
>How can they fix this?
>Thanks!
>Terry