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Okay this sounds like it's going in the right direction! What is a subdocument, and how do you create one? (it's a word function I presume?) ...my data is all in a single db, and it is easiest to keep it that way if possible. Is your code only to generate data subsets, or part of the...

Okay, I have a large MS Word document which has some pages populated by data held in a database (Access) - I've done this using a mail merge, and all works absolutely fine. The problem is that in a different part of the document I want to populate it by different data from a different query...

There is a Design Template called "Blank Presentation" - you open that, modify it to whatever you want, and that is the default template that is used by powerpoint. Jonathan Challis IT Manager

Okay, a simplified example might be as follows: Somewhere in the body of the document we have a merged catalogue (sorted by product1): Product1 Attribute1 Attribute2 Attribute3 Description <next record> And then back in the tables and charts in the appendices we have 10...

More like alphabetical lists in one section, cross-referencing lists ordered by serial number and type in two separate appendices. The different lists also display different information, and are formatted differently. Whilst I started manually cross refeencing the lists, the dynamic nature...

Thanks Skip, but unless I'm misunderstanding that will not help here. I am not trying to tie together different data sources into one large merge, but rather I have completely different mail merges in different parts of the document (some with different data, some with the same data but in...

I have a large Word2k document that I need to contain multiple mail merges (catalogue type, not form letters). The datasources are all seperate queries within an Access database, but I doubt that this changes the problem from one of true multiple sources. Q1: Is this possible, and if so how...

Thanks Craig - incorrect brackets, but yes, that was the obvious solution - especially since I was (as always) running of queries rather than tables direct. Jonathan Challis IT Manager

This field is usually either empty, or contains more than 5 characters. If it has any data in it, I want to have a single trailing space at the end (a full stop and then space actually, but the "." is the easy bit). The reason is that I am using this to power a mail merge in word, and two...

It's not a text field in a form, etc, but rather a column in a table (datatype: text) - is there any way to do something similar there? Jonathan Challis IT Manager

Hi there, Does anyone know of a way to force Access to allow a trailing space in a text field (or a memo field if that made the difference). Thanks, Jonathan Challis IT Manager

Okay - I've sorted it! For anyone interested (primarily aronb) the problem was the printer driver - delete the printer it works beautifully. It was an old printer (albeit with the XP drivers) so I guess this was the problem. This would obviously explain why it occurred with different versions...

Oh one more maybe useful clue.... Notepad (very basic text editor) works fine but Wordpad (WYSIWYG text editor) does not.... Jonathan Challis IT Manager

Okay.... As mentioned above, the Eraser utility doesn't work with WinXP, but there is another document detailling a list of files and folders to manually delete. ...The only problem is that Windows won't let you delete most of them (even as an administrator, with almost all the processes...

The normal.dot is local to each profile, so that can't be it. I tried it anyway, but it had no effect. Ditto, the Template and Startup contents. The Eraser utility doesn't work for WinXP (it warns against it several times). I'm going to try anyway, since my next recourse is a format and...

Well approaching the problem from a logical point of view rather than a technical one, do you actually need to look back at the dates it reached different stages for any reason? If not then just have a single field called "Next Action" or similar, and store all the dates there. The context to...

Thanks Ken, Most of this has been tried, but I'll try renaming the normal.dot (ignored this since it was a clean install) and the MS Eraser... Thanks, Jonathan Challis IT Manager

Okay, I've just built a new machine for my mother, and everything works perfectly except that MS Word 2000 crashes between 2-30 seconds after opening. I'm an IT Manager, so I know my way around a PC, and have tried all the basic (and not so basic) ways to troubleshoot this, but now I'm...

If you have plenty of hard drive space, then make the virtual memory a GB or so. If possible, upgrade your RAM however - 256 is not really enough for a WinXP system with any real world usage, although it will boot with it (and hence suppliers sell them!). Adding another 512mb should only be...

Hi there, thanks for the reply... I've double chicked all cables and cards, and they are properly seated. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA 7VTX Dual BIOS. I've switched BIOS in the boot utility plenty of times with no problem, but I don't know if it would failover in the case of a hardware...