John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Aug 12 10:35:58 CDT 2003
Can you say "user"? They wants what they wants, and what they wants is to be able to add custom information from their head about the claim they are working on. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Wortz, Charles Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:18 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] mail merge John, Why the on-the-fly choosing? I have developed mail merge apps where the user had the choice of several boilerplate templates, but which one to use was predetermined by the data. The user makes all the choices before the mail merge is run, not during it. Also, why the need to edit the results? All the variable data should come from the db or user choices before the mail merge process begins, not during it. Charles Wortz Software Development Division Texas Education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701-1494 512-463-9493 CWortz at tea.state.tx.us -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com] Sent: Tuesday 2003 Aug 12 10:00 To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] mail merge Are you trying to manage it from Access? You might think about a Word form and macros for some of the on-the-fly stuff, but even Word makes you make your merge choices from a wizard unless you're hand-building the merge document. They can always edit the merged document if you merge to a new document instead of directly to the printer. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:07 AM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] mail merge My client wants to do mail merges where they can stop and edit the letter, and also choose (on-the-fly) boiler plate text to be inserted in the document. I am building a wizard or code library to manage mail merge but it seems that with these requirements I would need a form to pop up to allow them to make selections. Has anyone ever done this stuff? How do you handle it? John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com