Office 2004 data merge manager & Pro 8

[otjacob]

I am using Office 2004 for Mac. Will the data merge manager in Word recognize a FileMaker Pro 8 database or does the data need to be exported? My Pro 8 database is greyed out when the data source selected is filemaker pro and the choices appear.

Thanks,

jacob

Edited December 14, 2005 by Guest

[CyborgSam]

AFAIK, and on my Mac this only works for FileMaker 5-6 (.fp5 extension). All .fp7 files on my Mac are dimmed.

Maybe Office 2008 will be compatible with FileMaker 7. ;-)

You'll have to export from FileMaker... Remember that Word doesn't like Filemaker's .tab and .mer extensions, so save them as .txt.

[JerrySalem]

I don't know if this is your problem, but Office also won't see Filemaker files on a server. They have to be on the machine you are working on.

[mlemmnapa]

No Word will not recognize a FileMaker file as a data source you have to export the data. Unless you have more than a one page letter just do the merge right in FileMaker no need to use Word or use EZXLT and export as XML to created merged Word document.