Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sun May 6 09:59:05 CDT 2012
A mail merge is quite different from making Access act like Word. Mail merges work well, and pushing data into named bookmarks in a Word template is very effective. I've used both from Access, but a band report generator simply doesn't have the fine control over the document conditions that Word has. In dot net you have finer control but you generally work with third party tools and you have to control EVERYTHING! Charlotte Foust On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > Extremely interesting response, Charlotte. > I performed a Word mail-merge from Access..it was adventurous, but worked > well. > Dot net developers got the re-write contract (I mentioned this before), > but > they could not pull it off. > > > Any time you try to make Access reports behave like Word, you run into > > roadblocks. Fortunately, there are usually workarounds, but sometimes > > the > > effort required is simply not worth it for the result achieved. > > Charlotte Foust > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >