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Article ID: 834011 - Last Review: April 7, 2006 - Revision: 3.1
Mail Merge data source opens or closes in Word 2002 each time that you click or press a key
Important This article contains information about modifying the registry.
Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you
understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information
about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
256986Â
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Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry
In
Step 3 of 6 of the
Mail Merge
Wizard (on the
Tools menu, point to
Letters
and Mailings) in Microsoft Word 2002, when you use a document that is
saved in a document management program as a data source, the data source may
repeatedly open and close each time that you click or press a
key.
This problem may occur after you install Word 2002 Security
Patch: September 3, 2003.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824934Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=824934/
)
Overview of the Word 2002 Security Patch: September 3, 2003
How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the Word 2002 post-Service Pack 3 Hotfix Package May 5, 2004. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
830807Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=830807/
)
Word 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: May 5, 2004
After you install
this hotfix, follow the steps that are listed in the "More Information" section
of this article to set the MMDataSrcHeuristic registry key and to activate the
hotfix.
Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious
problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft
cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry
Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own
risk.
To activate this
hotfix, follow these steps:
- Quit Word.
- Click Start, and then click
Run.
- In the Open box, type
regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate, and then click to select the following registry
key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options
- After you select the key that is specified in step 4,
point to New on the Edit menu, and then click
DWORD Value.
- Type MMDataSrcHeuristic, and then
press ENTER.
- Right-click MMDataSrcHeuristic, and then
click Modify.
- In the Value data box, type
1, and then click OK.
- On the File menu, click
Exit to quit Registry Editor.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
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