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    mySQL and Word mail merge(Resolved)

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    Can anyone help me out a little....
    What I'm tring to do is connect to 1 table in mySQL database
    and get a the data for printing mailing labels.....
    I get error 5922 Word was unable to open data source.
    I did a search and tried everything I could find with no luck...
    It does how ever connect maybe once every 10 or 15 tries.


    Code:
    Dim sSQL As String
    Dim sConn As String
    Dim oApp As Word.Application
    Dim oDoc As Word.Document
    'Start a new document in Word
    Set oApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
    Set oDoc = oApp.Documents.Add
    MousePointer = 11
    With oDoc.MailMerge
    With .Fields
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "First"
    oApp.Selection.TypeText " "
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "Last"
    oApp.Selection.TypeParagraph
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "Address"
    oApp.Selection.TypeParagraph
    
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "City"
    oApp.Selection.TypeText ", "
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "State"
    oApp.Selection.TypeText " "
    .Add oApp.Selection.Range, "Zip"
    End With
    
    
    Dim oAutoText As Word.AutoTextEntry
    Set oAutoText = oApp.NormalTemplate.AutoTextEntries.Add("MyLabelLayout", oDoc.Content)
    oDoc.Content.Delete 'Merge fields in document no longer needed now
    'that the AutoText entry for the label layout
    'has been added so delete it.
    
    
    'Set up the mail merge type as mailing labels and use
    'a tab-delimited text file as the data source.
    .MainDocumentType = wdMailingLabels
    
    sSQL = "SELECT * FROM S1"
    sConn = "Driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};" & _
               "Server=" & ADDY & ";" & _
               "Database=Scouts;" & _
               "Uid=" & UID1 & ";" & _
               "Pwd=" & Pas1 & ";"
    
    
    'sConn = "DSN=;DATABASE=Scouts;uid=" & UID1 & ";pwd=" & Pas1 & ";"
    .OpenDataSource Name:="C:\Scout1.dsn", Connection:=sConn, SQLStatement:=sSQL     <---My problem seems to be here....
    
    'Create the new document for the labels using the AutoText entry
    'you added -- 5160 is the label number to use for this sample.
    'You can specify the label number you want to use for the output
    'in the Name argument.
    oApp.MailingLabel.CreateNewDocument Name:="5160", Address:="", _
    AutoText:="MyLabelLayout", LaserTray:=wdPrinterManualFeed
    
    'Execute the mail merge to generate the labels.
    .Destination = wdSendToNewDocument
    .Execute
    
    'Delete the AutoText entry you added
    oAutoText.Delete
    
    End With
    
    'Close the original document and make Word visible so that
    
    'the mail merge results are displayed
    oDoc.Close False
    oApp.Visible = False
    oApp.PrintOut True
    Sleep 3000
    'Prevent save to Normal template when user exits Word
    oApp.NormalTemplate.Saved = True
    oApp.Quit False
    Set oApp = Nothing
    Set oDoc = Nothing
    Set oAutoText = Nothing
    MousePointer = 0
    Exit Sub
    err1:
    Set oApp = Nothing
    Set oDoc = Nothing
    Set oAutoText = Nothing
    MousePointer = 0
    The connection string was the kicker
    I have office XP and for some reason mail merge don't like it...
    So to fix or work around is to force it to Word2000.
    Maybe someone else can use this info.....

    Code:
    .OpenDataSource Name:="", _
      Connection:="DSN=Scout1", SQLStatement:=sSQL, SubType:=wdMergeSubTypeWord2000
    Last edited by PJMAXX; Jul 24th, 2003 at 05:02 PM.
    My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

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