ODBC was suggested as an alternative; that may work without converting the data.

My suggestion was for the case that MS-Word opened the table directly - and I think I remember that this workaround (saving as a dBASE III table) works. Of course, with a VFP program you can automate a lot.

>Say it ain't so!! Although your suggestion may work, I'd prefer not to have to do this. I can't believe that one MS product can't understand the data format of another. I did notice, via a Google search, that this problem was popping up for other people, but unfortunately I'm not seeing a solution (not so far, at least).
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>Thanks for your quick reply,
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>Russell
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>>Many programs - including Microsoft programs! - can read dBASE files, but not VFP files.
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>>Try:
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>>use MyTable
>>copy to MergeTable.dbf type FoxPlus
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>>FoxPlus is compatible with dBASE III.
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>>>Ok, this is kind of a Word question, but I'm trying to get mail merge working in a VFP app and when I set up the mail merge document in Word and point it to my VFP table, it says it can't open the table. The table is not open in VFP or anything simple like that and the VFP OLEDB provider is installed on my machine. It may be something simple, but it's eluding me at the moment. Any mail merge experts out there that can make a suggestion. Word's help has not been real helpful so far.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>Russell Campbell