William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Thu Aug 21 06:42:08 CDT 2003
...thanks Chris ...unfortunately the graphics are inserted multiple times
per page in tabled cells.
William Hindman
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth,
his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work,
to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to
make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
-- Thomas Wolfe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Foote, Chris" <Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:58 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Select Range of Records ...Word from Access
> Hi William!
>
> I've encountered something similar in the past.
>
> What I've done is to include graphics and text that is the same on all
pages
> as a watermark in the Word document. That way, the graphic (and text) is
> only in the merged document once rather than however many "pages" you end
up
> with.
>
> HTH
> Chris Foote
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:56 AM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: [AccessD] Select Range of Records ...Word from Access
> >
> >
> > ...ok ...just don't ask how I get into these things ...and if
> > this seems
> > like a JC post, I really don't want to hear about it :(
> >
> > ...I have a pretty good client who has been printing badges for his
> > tradeshows from a db I wrote for him ...merging to a Word document and
> > printing on preformatted badges ...piece of cake.
> >
> > ...now he's decided that with his nifty new $18K heavy duty
> > high speed color
> > printer (NEVER buy a Minolta printer) that he can do the
> > entire print job
> > in-house ...including some heavy duty badge graphics ...so
> > after untold
> > hours (paid hourly) of formatting this wonderful new badge
> > with umpteen
> > changes upon umpteen changes we finally get to the dirty deed
> > of printing
> > badges for a forthcoming show ...test pass of a few hundred
> > records runs
> > fine ...he's impressed ...I'm relieved ...go on to next client :)
> >
> > ...his badge person runs the badge print process on the
> > entire list and
> > everything on the db side works fine ...in this case there
> > are 4200+ badges
> > to print ...and therein lies my tale of woe :(
> >
> > ...the new improved graphics in-house badge has four records
> > per 11x17 sheet
> > ...and those 4200 records when merged into a new word
> > document produce a
> > file more than 75mb in size ...Word chokes at 32mb ...boy does it ever
> > choke! :(((((
> >
> > ...complete redo of the badge template doc cuts the doc size
> > by a quarter
> > ...can't seem to squeeze any more out of it :(
> >
> > ...so I have to somehow cut the size of the file
> > significantly ...I want it
> > under 20mb so that editing is halfway reasonable.
> >
> > ...I thought about splitting the file into four parts at the point of
> > producing the merged document ...this would be the cleanest
> > solution from
> > the user standpoint ...they'd just get four print-jobs
> > instead of one ...but
> > I'm not a Word guru by any means and have no clue how to do
> > that in the VERY
> > short timeframe I have to work with ...but if there is a Word
> > guru out there
> > my current code is:
> >
> > Function BuyerBadges()
> > Dim objWord As Word.Document
> > Set objWord = GetObject("F:\Document Masters\Buyer
> > Documents\BuyerBadges.doc", "Word.Document")
> > ' Make Word visible.
> > objWord.Application.Visible = True
> > ' Set the mail merge data source as the JemsXP database.
> > objWord.MailMerge.OpenDataSource _
> > Name:="C:\Program Files\JemsXP\JemsXP.mdb", _
> > LinkToSource:=True, _
> > Connection:="TABLE tblTempBuyerBadges", _
> > SQLStatement:="Select * from [tblTempBuyerBadges] WHERE
> > (((tblTempBuyerBadges.PrintFlag)= True))"
> > ' Execute the mail merge.
> > objWord.MailMerge.Execute
> > End Function
> >
> > ...assuming I can't successfully split the document at the
> > merge point, it
> > seems that selecting only a partial range of records to print
> > at one time is
> > the next best solution ...it isn't very user friendly but if
> > it'll work,
> > that's life. I currently use a "Select" button on a
> > continuous form to set a
> > print flag on every record in a temp table and then use the
> > Print Flag as
> > the where condition in the merge sql as above ...individual
> > records can be
> > selected from the bound form as well but I can't very well
> > ask the users to
> > click on a thousand individual records ...so I need to change
> > the select
> > code below to pick a range of records to print as well as
> > retain a "Print
> > All" option. ...the thing is I'm brain dead at the moment and
> > can't think of
> > how best to go about implementing it ...any help for the
> > battle weary would
> > be deeply appreciated ...I have to have this working eleven
> > short hours from
> > now :((((((
> >
> > Private Sub cmdSelect_Click()
> > On Error GoTo Err_cmdSelect_Click
> >
> > DoCmd.SetWarnings False
> > DoCmd.OpenQuery "qryBuyerBadgesSelect"
> > DoCmd.SetWarnings True
> > Me.Refresh
> >
> > Exit_cmdSelect_Click:
> > Exit Sub
> >
> > Err_cmdSelect_Click:
> > MsgBox err.Description
> > Resume Exit_cmdSelect_Click
> >
> > End Sub
> >
> > Private Sub cmdPrintSelected_Click()
> > DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSaveRecord
> > DoCmd.Close acForm, "frmBuyerBadges"
> > BuyerBadges
> >
> > End Sub
> >
> > William Hindman
> > So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless
> > of his birth,
> > his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to
> > live, to work,
> > to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision
> > can combine to
> > make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
> > -- Thomas Wolfe
> >
> >
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