[AccessD] mail merge from text file

John,

Is pushing the data from Access and option for this merge?

If so there are a couple of good artilces in the M-M newsletter,
written by a kindly soul, who is finally getting to write some code
today. Yep, that would be me :-)

That way you would end up with only one Access session open and
depending on how you coded it, one session of Word open.

Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca

>>> jcolby at colbyconsulting.com 22-Dec-03 9:03:46 AM >>>
uhh...

Well...

Someone recommended text files as if that was a natural way to go... 
but of
course I can generate temp db files.  Apparently if you use something
like
Access or Excel to hold the data then Word uses automation to open an
instance of that program to feed it the data.  I am assuming that if
you use
a text file that automation step just goes away and the text file is
simply
read by Word.

Of course knowing MS they might very well open an instance of Word to
read
the text file and feed it to Word...

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:46 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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?