Hi there, am a novice so i am sorry if this is a common question...I have a database I made in FM Pro7 that i would like to use as data in Word documents (office mac 2004) the only problem is when I open the data merge manager and open the FM dialogue for data, it will not recognize any of my FM7 files, only my FM5.5....and i have lots new stuff with the new program!

What have I done wrong?

Thanks for nay thoughts and suggestions

dillon [email protected]

I was hoping Word 2004 had been updated to recognize the new FP7 format, but it sounds like that's not the case. Good to know -- I ran into the problem recently doing a merge with Word v. X, and figured it would be cured if I upgraded. My solution was to export my data as an Excel file, with the caveat that any field entries with embedded Returns will need to be laundered into multiple fields or substituted to a different character, imported into a Word table, and Replaced back. All a real pain. Your other choice is to just build your merge document directly in Filemaker.

I would also make sure you're running the most recent "Service Pack" of Office 2004 -- Hopefully Micro$oft will get their act together and update to support the new file format.

-Terence

Try using EZXSLT instead. It lets you create Word documents by using a special type of XML export + stylesheet.