> I have never seen this before and the only potentially relevant article I
> can find is at
>
>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137076/en-us>
> which says that you have to have certain Windows registry entries. However,
> that's a very old article about old versions of Windows and Word. As an
> experiment, I removed the relevant registry entries for Access here
> (WinXP/Word2003/Access2003) and the DDE option appeared. However, when I
> selected it, Word was unable to make the connection. In other words, those
> entries are needed, but removing them does not have precisely the effect you
> are seeing.
>
> Another article, for Word 2000
>
>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211193/en-us>
> suggests that if DDE does not appear in the list, you need to
> uninstall/reinstall Access. I would suggest that in Office 2003, you ensure
> you have the Office 2003 CDs ready and use Access Help|Deect and Repair and
> see if that makes any difference.
>
> Peter Jamieson
>
>
> "Laura" <Laura[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3B684719-012A-44B0-B4BF-00222D32F46D[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > Yes, I think I need DDE. My data is coming from a parameter query that
> > asks
> > for one piece of data.
> >
> > I tried the OLE DB Database Files, and that did not give me any queries to
> > choose from, just tables.
> >
> > I also had already clicked the "Show all" box to give more options, but it
> > is still not there. And, my file name is vbs.mdb.
> >
> > I suppose I could make my query into a make-table query, but I would like
> > for it to work the right way. I didn't mention this earlier, but this
> > mail
> > merge works fine at my house, but when I bring it to the church it doesn't
> > work. I don't know what is different about the church.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Laura
> >
> > "Peter Jamieson" wrote:
> >
> >> Do you definitely need to use DDE (you may need to, if for example you
> >> are
> >> using a parameter query in Access as the data source)? If not, do you see
> >> the OLE DB Database Files option? If so, try that.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, does the option appear if you check the "Show all" box in the
> >> "Confirm Data Source" dialog box?
> >>
> >> I don't know why the DDE option does not appear - the most likely reason
> >> would be that you are not selecting a file with a .mdb or .mde
> >> extension,
> >> but that seems unlikely in this case.
> >>
> >> Peter Jamieson
> >> "Laura" <Laura[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:6E73BB87-EE27-413A-8956-FFBDD30EC44F[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >> >I have an exsisting mail merge with Word2003/Access2003 that I use only
> >> >once
> >> > a year for Vacation Bible School at my church. This year it decided
> >> > not
> >> > to
> >> > work! THe mail merge pulls data from a query in Access to create
> >> > letters
> >> > in
> >> > Word.
> >> >
> >> > I have read several posts and have made a little progress, but I am
> >> > still
> >> > stuck. I have checked the "Confirm conversions at open", and when I
> >> > get
> >> > to
> >> > Open Data Source, the "MS Access Database via DDE" option is not
> >> > available.
> >> > I have tried the "MS Access Database via ODBC" and that does not work.
> >> > I
> >> > know I need the DDE one from what I have read in other posts, but how
> >> > do I
> >> > get it?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Laura
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
>