[AccessD] mail merge from text file

Hi John

Why not export your data to a temp database (mdb) file?
You know how to create and fill those ...

/gustav


> I am finally doing the mail merge into Word that has been threatening for
> the last 6 months.  What I have discovered is that if I specify a query
> directly, Word opens a NEW instance of Access and opens whatever db the
> query is in.  It happens that the FE the query is in has an opening login
> screen etc. so that doesn't work too well.  Given that, I need to export the
> data somewhere that word can get at it unencumbered.

> Someone on the list suggested exporting the data to text files, then doing
> the mail merge from those text files.  Can someone elucidate a bit there?
> Is the text file comma delimited?  Does it need the bookmark name for where
> each datum is going?  IOW what is the format of the text file going to be?