Hi -

I have had the most awful time for two days now, trying to perform what I consider a very simple and "routine" function.

I retrieved a group of records, set up my export specs and exported the data to a file.

I then opened an MS Word merge document to complete the merge and I kept getting errors in almost every record.

Finally, I opened the exported file, set Word to reveal paragraph marks and found there were only a few.

I read the manual several times and overlooked this one (very clear) sentence:

Quote:


From "old" habit I had been saving the file with a .asc extention.  When I changed the export file name to include a .txt extension, it worked like a charm ...

So, I simply wanted to pass this along in case anyone else makes a similar mistake.  

Erika -

Thanks for clarifying the "why" of the problem and I imagine that you're right about it being an MS Word issue.  The interesting part is that I nearly always performed mail merges in Word and the file extension of either .txt or .asc was never a problem. 

In any event, it's a mistake that I won't make again.