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Mail merge data source problem
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I need to write a html page that opens a word document and does an automatic mail merge with the data that I supply to it from within the mailmerge and not the ususal data source. I have the data in javascript, all I need to do is run word, give it the data and then do a mil amerge. Any ideas? Hamid |
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Hi Hamid,
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want; how you want to handle the data source is not clear. But based on requests I've seen from "web page people", I'm guessing you want to hold the data in a stream and feed it to the mail merge. Word's mail merge does not support this. Word requires a flat-table, saved to disk. I need to write a html page that opens a word document and does an automatic mail merge with the data that I supply to it from within the mailmerge and not the ususal data source. I have the data in javascript, all I need to do is run word, give it the data and then do a mil amerge. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Cindy,
How might I use an RDBMS datasource for my mail merge file? I wan't to do this in C#, but I can't find any examples. TIA, -campwes "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi Hamid, I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want; how you want to handle the data source is not clear. But based on requests I've seen from "web page people", I'm guessing you want to hold the data in a stream and feed it to the mail merge. Word's mail merge does not support this. Word requires a flat-table, saved to disk. I need to write a html page that opens a word document and does an automatic mail merge with the data that I supply to it from within the mailmerge and not the ususal data source. I have the data in javascript, all I need to do is run word, give it the data and then do a mil amerge. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi =?Utf-8?B?Y2FtcHdlcw==?=,
How might I use an RDBMS datasource for my mail merge file? I wan't to do this in C#, but I can't find any examples. I understand some C#-speak, but my grasp of the acronym RDBMS is uncertain. Could you spell it out for me, please? Perhaps it will help answer your question if I say that Word REQUIRES a data source saved to a "traditional" network or local disk path. URLs aren't accepted. Nor can Word work with any data source "in memory". Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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