Will it use it directly? I thought that the only data type word recognized natively was a word table? If it can access a foxbase/dbase style table then you're right, it would be faster. But it would still send one big print job with 250 pages. The people we have running our printers are not computer literate, so explaining how to kill a print job is not gonna happen. They'll never get it...

The "leaning on the keyboard" thing was a lesson we learned the hard way. ;@

paul


>Paul, you've given a very complete overview of a difficult problem - 50,000 typos? The mind boggles.
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>Since you're using 250 or fewer items in your 'sack', have you considered simply copying the necessary fields to a temp table (style FoxBase) and then calling a straight Word mailmerge? Much faster than ODBC, because it reads DBFs directly. I have a client using exported tables this way very successfully. They actually open Word and start the merge themselves, but both merge doc and dbf name are pre-set. This could certainly be done with OLE Automation, and if you don't open Word you can't lean on the keyboard < grin >
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>Barbara
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