[AccessD] db reports or mail merge?

...our own Bryan has some really good word/access stuff here
http://www3.sympatico.ca/carbonnb/bryan/index.html
(check out his treeview switchboard as well)

...and this is also a fount of word and mail merge resources
http://word.mvps.org/

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MartyConnelly" <martyconnelly at shaw.ca>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] db reports or mail merge?


> There are some examples here of driving word mail merge from access
> http://www.helenfeddema.com/CodeSamples.htm
> http://www.helenfeddema.com/access.htm
>
> Eric Starkenburg wrote:
>
>>Hi Mark,
>>
>>In my opinion you should stick with the letters which are already there 
>>and
>>use a mailmerge. It's easier to maintain by others that just the 
>>programmer
>>and in Word you have far more letter options than in an Access report.
>>
>>
>>Good luck:)
>>Eric Starkenburg
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark A Matte
>>Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:57 PM
>>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>>Subject: [AccessD] db reports or mail merge?
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I have a scenario where I get a feed of data...from theis letter I print
>>letters and postcards.  I have the logic that tells what phone 
>>numbers/text
>>needs to change for each letter type.  All of the letters were formatted 
>>in
>>word.  I was planning on recreating the word docs as reports in a db.
>>
>>Is this the best approach...or is there a better approach using 'mail 
>>merge'
>>
>>or something like that?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Mark A. Matte
>>
>>P.S...With either approach...the end product will just be a button that
>>prints all reports and postcards.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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