Comments on: Office 2007 and Mail Merge with SharePoint

By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:20:58 +0000

I spoke with Microsoft about this issue about 2 years ago and they acknowledged the disconnect but they did not seem like they were in a rush to resolve the issue.

It's unfortunate.

By: Jason Friend

Jason Friend — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:19:05 +0000

It seems mapping a drive in WinXP works fine for everyone here in my office. I have one person on Vista Business and even though the mapped drive was set to reconnect on login it doesn't reconnect. As a band-aid for now I created a batch file that creates the mapped drive everytime that person logs into the computer. I don't like doing that, but at least it's working in the meantime.

We are going to move everyone to Windows 7 sometime this year and hearing from Chris that the problem still exists with Office 2007/2010 does not bode well.

By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:35 +0000

That's pretty discouraging. Thank you for making us aware.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:52:23 +0000

it's getting worse…the unc-mapping-workaround doesn't work windows 7 with office 2007
i also tested windows 7 with office 2010 and the bug still exists

By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:27:35 +0000

That's pretty discouraging. Thank you for making us aware.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:52:23 +0000

it's getting worse…the unc-mapping-workaround doesn't work windows 7 with office 2007
i also tested windows 7 with office 2010 and the bug still exists

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:14:55 +0000

Thanks for this; another quirky Microsoft product….

By: auschick

auschick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:48:22 +0000

aha! thank you for the mapping work around – that fixed it!

By: liebrand

liebrand — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:36:38 +0000

Matthew,

Thank you for letting us know about your web part. However, I still think 99% of the people are trying to mail merge between an Excel / Word document stored in SharePoint, not with a list of SharePoint data.

I could be wrong, but it appears that your web parts mail merge from SharePoint lists in Office documents.

Thanks,

Paul Liebrand

By: Matthew Gordon

Matthew Gordon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:53:55 +0000

Best to contact Link Software or me