vista compatibility problems with Office 2000 mailmerge

[jrtman50]

I upgraded to Vista from XP and now none of my Word 2000 mailmerge document work. I receive “Open database connectivity error. No data source name found or default driver.” The program freezes if I try to relink the template to an access query. The mailmerge is tied into queries in Access 2000. The links between Word and Access no longer exist or are not accessible. If I try to make a new mailmerge docs from scratch, several copies of Access are immediately opened each time I create a new mailmerge document or open one. I would like to use all of the mailmerge docs I created in Office 97 & Office 2000, which worked fine and didn't open a copy of access each time I opened the mailmerge doc. Any suggestions? Am I out of luck using vista?

[jrtman50]

I finally figured how to do it.
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1. Open template as document, not template.
2. Click tools on drop down menu.
3. Select Mail merge.
4. Select data source, Get Data.
5. Open data source.
6. At files of type select: choose MsAccess.
7. Check select method.
8. Double click Law.
9. Check Show All.
10. Select MsAccess Database via ODBC (*.mdb)
11. Click Ok.
12. Switchboard Items should be showing. Select Options.
13. Check Tables; Check Views.
14. Click OK.
15. Select proper query.
16. Click Ok.
17. Close.
18. Save template.