I'm working on an upcoming migration of content from a Microsoft network share into LF Web, and a user asked me today how to handle mail merges in documents and hyperlinks within files that direct to other files when they're in LF. I opened a Word doc that is stored in our LF web repository currently, and tried to insert a mail merge, but when choosing a source to populate the field (ex a set of names and mailing addresses for a mailout that is coming from a different file), I'm required to navigate through File Explorer to the file that the data is being pulled from. 

I tried searching the help topics here but the vast majority of discussions seem to be centred around workflow functionality, which we might not be able to build out immediately with our project's constraints. Is there a way to get mail merges in Word to work WITHOUT using workflows that I'm missing? To be clear, this is not gathering info through a workflow or form and populating it into a mail merge, the field specifically needs to pull from another file (usually in excel), which is in a different network location.

I couldn't find any way to map LF as a network location except through WebDAV, which seems to have mixed feedback. Is there a way to do that?

If someone knows the answer to this and is able to assist, that'd be awesome, thanks!