[AccessD] Background Color for Entire Access Report Page

Small volume 5-20 at a time.  

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 1:23 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Background Color for Entire Access Report Page

Are you actually doing a mail merge with fields for a large mailing or
pushing data into bookmarked spaces for a letter or two?

Charlotte

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:

> I've got to do mail merge for a client this week - couple of letters 
> with addresses, salutations, class data, etc.  Pushed into a form 
> letter from Access.
>
> I did this once before and it worked - with a template with fields - 
> so I suppose I can do it again.  But it was a number of years ago and 
> it seemed rather kludgey.  I'm still using 2003 for development.
>
> Any pointers, tip, guidelines, new methods or anything?  I can crib my 
> code out of that other app and modify it so I guess it won't be the 
> job it was the first time.
>
> Rocky
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte 
> Foust
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 7:59 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Background Color for Entire Access Report Page
>
> 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
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