Vista compatibility with Word 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?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Well, Office 2000 is not certified to be compatible with Windows Vista, some
persons have reported that it works ok on the OS, but I am sure they
couldn't guarantee the entire functionality of the suite is compatible. It
seems that the version of the ODBC used by Office 2000 is incompatible with
the Vista version. You could try applying Service Pack 3 to seem if it will
fix any problems with Mail Merge, but its not guaranteed. The only
recommendation would be upgrade to a later version of Office thats
guaranteed to be compatible such as Office 2003 or Office 2007.

You might want to relay this issue in the following newsgroups:
microsoft.public.access.odbcclientsrv
microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields