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standalone version of Microsoft office 2024 for mac I am attempting to create a mail merge with an excel spreadsheet and a word document. After creating the spreadsheet with the needed columns, i create a word document with the wording needed. I clicked on Select recipient icon and chose the spreadsheet mentioned above.
A dialog box pops up telling me:
This file needs to be opened by the Excel Workbook text converter, which may pose a security risk if the file you are opening is a malicious file. Choose Yes to open this file only if you are sure it is from a trusted source.
Why am i getting the need ti invoke Excel text converter?
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
This is a standard security measure. It's due to one program attempting to read information from a file type which it doesn't support. The file converter has to be evoked.