The downside, of course, is that you now have two versions of the document to maintain.Īnother potential answer is to rename the data source. You could open the one when you wanted to actually do a mail merge and open the other when you wanted to do some other editing task. Thus, you would have two copies of the document-one that is defined for use in the mail merge and another that is not. One possible solution to stop the data source from opening is to make a copy of the document before setting it up as a mail-merge document. Apparently the "link" between a document and its data source is not considered a link, in the traditional meaning of the term.
MICROSOFT WORD CRASHES WHEN OPENING BLANK DOCUMENT UPDATE
Word does allow you to turn off automatic updating of links when a document is opened (Tools | Options | General | Update Automatic Links at Open), but testing shows that this control doesn't affect mail merge relationships. (You can, of course, break the relationship between the document and the data source, but that would mean that you would later need to reestablish the relationship if you wanted to do an actual mail merge.) Unfortunately, there is no way to do this-Word automatically opens the data source regardless of your desires. If the data source is an Access database or an Excel workbook, particularly if it is on a network drive, opening the data source can be very slow.Īn easy way to solve this problem would be for Word to provide a way to open only the document, and to not open the data source. It is obvious that opening the data source takes time, even though it is done automatically. When you open the document, Word automatically opens the data source so that it can access the data necessary to the relationship.
Word includes a power mail-merge feature that allows you to create relationships between a document and a data source, and then automatically pull information from that data source for use in the document.
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