When the files are sent to the client, if they are then stored in the client's My Documents folder, then there will be a problem. One place this becomes obvious is if, for instance, you store the data source document and the mail merge document in the My Documents folder on your system. This means that when you send the two documents to a client, the mail merge document won't be able to find the data source document unless it is in the same path structure that it was on your original system. Word apparently saves, in the merge document, the full path name to the data source document. This problem is probably related to the location of the data source document relative to the mail merge document. When Don opens the same mail merge document on my system, the data source is still associated, just as it should be. It doesn't matter how many times the client opens the main document he must hunt for and "re-attach" the data source's file every single time. If the client opens the mail merge document, the data source document is no longer "attached," and the client has to go through the process of again letting Word know what to use as a data source. Don can set up the mail merge document and the data source document very nicely, and everything works fine until he e-mails both documents to his clients. The data source is invariably a Word document with the merge data in a table. Don creates quite a few mail merge documents in Word.
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