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Create Letter routine with variables
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From
20/05/2005 08:53:21
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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20/05/2005 08:08:14
Stephen Hunt
Admit Computer Services Inc.
Farmingdale, New York, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01016151
Message ID:
01016159
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>I am desiging a new product that needs to give the user the ability to create a letter template and allow for the user to insert variables who's source comes from a table. I know Word has a mail merge function built into
>it, is there anyway I can use this capability in my VFP app...

Yes, Word can be controlled from Visual FoxPro. This is called "Automation". I don't precisely have experience with Word, but I do it regularly with Excel. See if my article on Excel Automation - http://www.utmag.com/wconnect/wc.dll?9,7,10,1562 - can help as a starting-point - perhaps you can do some experimentation, and then ask back in this forum. There is also a book - I remember that one of the authors is Tamar Granor - about Office Automation.
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