Microsoft KB Archive/260177

= PUB2000: Cannot Filter or Sort DBF Files with Mail-Merge Feature =

Article ID: 260177

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q260177



SYMPTOMS
When you use the Filter or Sort command to limit the number of records that you want to appear in a mail-merge document, the mail-merge document may include all of the records that are contained in the mail-merge data source file.



CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the the mail-merge data source file is in the .dbf format.



RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, convert the .dbf file into one of the following ASCII text formats:
 * Tab delimited format (Text,Tab Delimited *.txt)


 * Comma delimited format (Text, Comma Delimited *.csv)

Please refer to your database software documentation to find out how to convert a .dbf file into one of these formats.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: mspub pub2k 9.0 pub9 dbase .csv .txt

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB260177

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