MS Word 2013 ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource not available for reading on opening a document
29-Jul-1414 Leave a comment
A new PC has MS Office 2013 when the system still uses Office 2003 templates and vba code.
Error:
Don’t have actual text to hand, but something like:
“MailMerge.OpenDataSource is not available for reading”
Solution:
Programmatically change the view on open:
Private Sub Document_Open()
Me.ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub
Found solution on web. Following was not the page, but similar
http://blogs.msmvps.com/wordmeister/2013/02/22/word2013bug-not-available-for-reading/