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HELP! Automate Mail merge using ODBC into a Secure Access Database

Unknown
in VBA
After securing my Access 97 database, and

established user-level password and access permissions, I started getting the

error message "Word could not open the data source" every time I try to run mail

merges. I have entered UID:= and PWD:= portions of the connection string, and researched every article and

information site that I can find. Is there another way to establish that data source

connection in Word 97 for the Mail Merge? HELP!

One of my reference books (VB4) speaks to the issue of the Jet engine

not being able to open password protected files. Is that the problem?

Can I bypass the Jet engine & still execute the mail merge command from Access?

Due to formatting and saving issues, recreating the documents as reports is

not an option.

Connection string is:

constr = "DSN=MS Access 97 Database;UID=****;PWD=****;DBQ=C:My Documentsdbs.mdb;FIL=RedISAM;"

Mail merge command line I am using is:

mailmerge.OpenDataSource Name:="C:My Documentsdbs.mdb", ReadOnly:=False, LinkToSource:=True, _

Connection:=constr, SqlStatement:="Select * from [" & qry & "]"


Comments

  • Unknown
    Have you tried manually creating the mail merge from within Word? How about using a DSN that contains the user information?? I have to do this to connect to Informix Database Engines and can do it using DSN connections.

    Good luck.


  • Unknown
    Have you tried manually creating the mail merge from within Word? How about using a DSN that contains the user information?? I have to do this to connect to Informix Database Engines and can do it using DSN connections.

    Good luck.


  • kensoykensoy
    Hi, please help!
    im working with Visual Basic 6.0 and Oracle,

    i traing to open a Recorset
    Dim Rec as New ADODB.Recordset
    strSQL="SELECT * FROM Emp"
    Rec.open strSQL, db, adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic

    and Mi problem is:
    Rec.cursortype change to adOpenStatic
    i need to be open adOpenDynamic

    my connection are:
    dim db as New ADODB.Connection

    db.Open "PROVIDER=OraOLEDB.Oracle;Data Source=dim0001;User id=usuario;Password=usuario;"

    db.Open "PROVIDER=MSDAORA;Data Source=dim0001;User id=usuario;Password=usuario;"

    db.Open "PROVIDER=MSDASQL;driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle};server=dim0001;uid=usuario;pwd=usuario;"

    db.Open "driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle};server=dim0001;uid=usuario;pwd=usuario;"

    db.Open "DSN=dim0001;uid=usuario;pwd=usuario"

    db.Open "PROVIDER=MSDASQL;Data Source=dim0001;User id=usuario;Password=usuario;"

    db.Open "Data Source=dim0001;User id=usuario;Password=usuario;"

    db.Open "PROVIDER=MSDASQL;dsn=dim0001;uid=usuario;pwd=usuario;"

    i traing all but not work, please help!



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