Restoring a Word document to normal

Sometimes, either by accident, temporary need, or whatever, a Word document becomes associated with a data file, and you want to restore a document to normal non-mail-merge status.

To restore a Word document to normal, in the Mailings tab, choose Start Mail Merge?Normal Word Document. Note that when you restore a document to normal status, a number of tools on the Mailings toolbar that were formerly available are now grayed out as unavailable. If you later decide that you need to again make the document into a data document, you will need to reestablish the data connection.

If there’s a chance that you’ll later need to restore a data connection, and if document storage space isn’t a concern, rather than break the data connection for a document, save a copy of the document, giving it a name that lets you know that it has a data connection, such as Sales Letter Merge with Data Connection. While establishing a data connection isn’t all that difficult or time-consuming, you can usually save some time and guesswork by not having to reinvent that particular wheel.

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