WD: Merge Results Blank Using Header File with ODBC

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a

SUMMARY

You may receive blank results during a mail merge when the mail merge document uses a header file and you have attached a database source file using ODBC.

For each record merged, you may receive the following message, where "x" is the record number:

One or more data fields in record x were truncated.

CAUSE

ODBC architecture does not require a header file to perform a mail merge. The elimination of header files ensures backward compatibility with Word version 2.0 for Windows mail merge files.

RESOLUTION

Do not attach a header file when you perform a mail merge using an ODBC driver; remove any currently attached header file.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbinterop word8 kbmerge word6 word7 word95
Version : WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb