Can't Change Mrg Data Table to Mrg Data Text

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:49:57 PM

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WordPerfect® 6.0 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer customer creates a Merge Data Table or a Merge Data File. Then, s/he decides to change the table to a text file or vice versa. The customer attempts to CHANGE FILE TYPE by choosing CHANGE FILE TYPE from the Merge Codes menu. CHANGE FILE TYPE does NOT--CHANGE FILE TYPE. CHANGE FILE TYPE actually will change the Merge Codes Menu, not the file type. Solutions: 1. Educate the customer so that s/he will know that CHANGE FILE TYPE is not designed to CHANGE FILE TYPE. The customer could be taught (or we could document) that CHANGE FILE TYPE means change Merge Codes Menu. OR, 2. Enter an Enhancement to re-word the button text to read CHANGE MERGE CODES MENU (since that is what it does). 3. Work around, although not a solution, is to run a series of search & replace to place merge codes after deleting the TABLE DEF. (See TID 665782 and TID 665564). Or, merge the data fields into a table. Causes: Confusion when customers and operators think that CHANGE FILE TYPE means CHANGE FILE TYPE.

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