On 10/05/2012 01:08 PM, Wellington Equine Associates (Shannon) wrote:
I think I maybe have a big "fubar" on my hands. And pardon my ignorance because I don't
"speak" computerese. Yesterday I created a Table Mailing List database. All was well. Today I
needed to add some more people to the list. That was fine. Was also able to sort it to keep it alphabetized
by last name. My problem started when I wanted to change the ID field to automatic. I think that it
accepted the change, but didn't change when I opened the table again. I went back into edit to change it
back and somehow I deleted the ID field, which to me was not that big of a deal, but it moved all of my
information over a field i.e., my "first name" was now in the Title field and all of the Title
information was gone. So, I went in and renamed the fields to what they were now showing. When I went back
to look at the table again, the information had shifted again and this time the first names were missing.
Each change I made in the field titles resulted in more missing information. How do I get ALL of my info
back??? I don't want to have to start all over and I did not have the backup copy option selected. I have
in the meantime chosen it. Please help soon! Thank you!
Shannon
Try this: With Writer open, use the F4 key to open the Data Source
window. You should see a list of databases on the left side including
Table Mailing List. If you see it, click the arrow to its left to reveal
the queries and tables it contains. Click the arrow in front of Tables
to reveal the tables (there is probably only the one table). Click the
table. The right side of the Data Source window contains a table with
the field names for the column headings. In spite of what you wrote, all
of the fields and their data is likely in this table.
This is another possibility: What you did was to change the
settings in Mail Merge. If this is the case and you still have the table
with the data, you probably should Begin mail merge from the beginning
selecting the fields needed and placing them where you need them.
--Dan
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