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From: MikeB on 29 Mar 2010 09:51
I created this nifty little program that uses an excel spreadsheet and
a Word document with label merge to print out drawing cards for my
chess club. It will soon be time to move on and I'd like to hand this
over to the lady that will continue the chess club after me. Now how
can I give her the document and the spreadsheet so that she can manage
the club?

In my computer both htese files are in the same folder. If I just send
her the two files and she puts them in the same folder, sill it
continue to work?

Thanks.

From: Terry Farrell on 29 Mar 2010 11:00
Probably that will work, but without seeing the underlying code or
methodology you used to create this, it is totally impossible to provide a
definitive answer. Send them off and get her to test it.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"MikeB" <mpbrede(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I created this nifty little program that uses an excel spreadsheet and
> a Word document with label merge to print out drawing cards for my
> chess club. It will soon be time to move on and I'd like to hand this
> over to the lady that will continue the chess club after me. Now how
> can I give her the document and the spreadsheet so that she can manage
> the club?
>
> In my computer both htese files are in the same folder. If I just send
> her the two files and she puts them in the same folder, sill it
> continue to work?
>
> Thanks.
>
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 29 Mar 2010 11:06
If it's just a simple mail merge using an Excel data source, it won't really
matter where she puts the files, but she'll need to reconnect to the data
source the first time she runs the merge.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"MikeB" <mpbrede(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:15b2e3e3-a342-4849-98fd-ee3e9b7f1df6(a)q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
>I created this nifty little program that uses an excel spreadsheet and
> a Word document with label merge to print out drawing cards for my
> chess club. It will soon be time to move on and I'd like to hand this
> over to the lady that will continue the chess club after me. Now how
> can I give her the document and the spreadsheet so that she can manage
> the club?
>
> In my computer both htese files are in the same folder. If I just send
> her the two files and she puts them in the same folder, sill it
> continue to work?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 29 Mar 2010 17:43
When she opens the mailmerge main document, if the data source is not
automatically attached to it, she will see a dialog that contains a button
allowing her to locate the data source.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"MikeB" <mpbrede(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:15b2e3e3-a342-4849-98fd-ee3e9b7f1df6(a)q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
> I created this nifty little program that uses an excel spreadsheet and
> a Word document with label merge to print out drawing cards for my
> chess club. It will soon be time to move on and I'd like to hand this
> over to the lady that will continue the chess club after me. Now how
> can I give her the document and the spreadsheet so that she can manage
> the club?
>
> In my computer both htese files are in the same folder. If I just send
> her the two files and she puts them in the same folder, sill it
> continue to work?
>
> Thanks.
>
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