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how to remove a recipient list from a word doc

Anonymous
2016-06-05T01:41:52+00:00

This might actually be related to my previous post but I'm not sure. So we'll see.  Anyway, sometimes I've got a file with a recipient list I just want to remove, not just change but I've yet to find that button.  Is there one?

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.8K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-06-05T02:21:06+00:00

    One the Mailings tab of the ribbon, expand the Start Mail Merge dropdown in the Start Mail Merge section of the ribbon and then select Normal Word Document and save the document.  That will remove the data source from the document.  If desired, before saving, select the type of mail merge main document that it was and then save the document.  It will then be saved as a mail merge main document, but without a data source attached to it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-05T02:10:39+00:00

    Each recipient list has a file name with an “mdb” extension and is most likely stored in your “My Data Sources” folder on your PC . Go to that folder and delete the data source files you no longer need.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-05T02:58:28+00:00

    thanks again!

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