Microsoft KB Archive/224050

= WD2000: ErrMsg: "Word could not merge these documents or insert this database." =

Article ID: 224050

Article Last Modified on 12/2/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224050



ERROR MESSAGE
When you are working with a mail merge data source, the following error message may appear:

Word could not merge these documents or insert this database.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.



Most likely, there are mismatched double quotation marks in a mail merge data source document.
Open the data source file without attaching it to the main file. Browse or search for any mismatched quotation marks, and correct them by providing matching left and right quotation marks or by removing the problem quotation marks.

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