Developer
Developer at UltraDNT.com
Wed Dec 17 08:18:31 CST 2003
ODBC is available in Word XP as a Data Source for Mail Merge...However,
I find it "cleaner" to just put my ADO RS into a CSV, and merge a Word
DOT to that (I can then use same code for users that want Excel dumps;
create the CSV, and then open it with Excel)
Hth
Steve
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim DeMarco
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:20 AM
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Subject: RE: Re: [AccessD] Mailmerge Using Word & SQL Server (VB6)
Paul,
Please let us know if this works for you. I'm not sure it will though.
We are looking at using SQL data for a mail merge as well and my first
take is you cannot through the Word UI (SQL is not listed as a data
source in the "Get Data" process). I don't know that you'll have any
better luck programmatically. Looking at William's code it seems that a
file name is in order which you're not going to have in a SQL data
source (but maybe a DSN will work?).
We've decided to insert bookmarks in a template documeht in place of
mail merge field placeholders. Then we'll loop through the SQL table
filling the bookmarks with data from the recordset. Then we are either
going to copy/paste into the end of a new master doc or we'll save the
new file as tmp.doc and do an "Insert File" command at the end of our
master document (simulating the mail merge).
This project just came up yesterday so I don't have anything more
definite but this is our thought process right now.
HTH,
Jim DeMarco
Director Product Development
Hudson Health Plan
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From: paul.hartland at fsmail.net [mailto:paul.hartland at fsmail.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:25 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: Re: [AccessD] Mailmerge Using Word & SQL Server (VB6)
Thanks, that should get me started......
Paul Hartland
Message date : Dec 17 2003, 09:19 AM
>From : William Hindman
To : Access Developers discussion and problem solving
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Subject : Re: [AccessD] Mailmerge Using Word & SQL Server (VB6) ...don't
have any merge code to SS7 Paul but the data connection syntax should be
the same ...here's how I do it from an Access FE local table ...HTH :)
Function ShowDirectory()
Dim objWord As Word.Document
Set objWord = GetObject("C:\Program
Files\EMSReports\Documents\ShowDirectory.doc", "Word.Document") ' Make
Word visible. objWord.Application.Visible = True ' Set the mail merge
data source as the EMSReports database. objWord.MailMerge.OpenDataSource
_ Name:="C:\Program Files\EMSReports\emsreports.mdb", _
LinkToSource:=True, _ Connection:="TABLE tblShowDir", _
SQLStatement:="Select * from [tblShowDir]" ' Execute the mail merge.
objWord.MailMerge.Execute End Function
William Hindman
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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:01 AM
Subject: [AccessD] Mailmerge Using Word & SQL Server (VB6)
To all,
I am starting to write a mailmerge application for our own internal use,
I want the user to be able to select the people they want to mail to and
store these in a temporary merge table on SQL Server 7.0 (this I have
already done). I also give them the option to select an exisiting Word
document or create a new one (also done)..
I need to know how (when the user opens the Word document), I can tell
the document to look at my temporary merge table on SQL Server 7.0.
Anyone know how I can do this as I have never tried to connect a Word
document to a datasource via code before.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Paul Hartland
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