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Word mail merge tags?
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15/02/2008 17:32:13
Gary Foster
Pointsource Consulting LLC
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01293093
Message ID:
01293109
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21
>I made a Merge wizard for my users that allows them to merge their hundreds of different letters to either a Word doc or email based on a number of criteria. In some cases a single merge run might contain several hundred letters to different individuals.
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>For email, I merge to a Word doc and then save that doc as HTML, open THAT doc and insert into a file as HTML, along with possible graphics, for later email to the many recipients.
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>My users don't want to hand modify large documents if I can handle it technically.
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>I could certainly come up with various ways to do this such as inserting my own tags in the text and then post processing the output or something. But if I could simply finesse Word itself with some codes, chars or something, that would be a good thing. It might not be possible in Word, but I'd thought I'd ask.
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>Thanks,
>
>Gary

They don't have to modify generated letters. They just have to modify MAIN document and BOLD only these fields they want.
If you use Mail merge you have One main document and one Data document (no matter what type it is DOC, XLS, CSN, TXT,DBF etc.)
WHen you generate letter you open Main document AND Data document and do Mail Merging. What I meant was let user modify Main document, not others. I doubt it have more that 2-3 pages (again I speak about template letter, not generated one).
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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