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MailMerge with Memo fields
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From
03/09/2008 18:15:44
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01344564
Message ID:
01344683
Views:
21
>Hi everybody,
>
>Just want to understand, if it's possible to do a Mail Merge from a file with memo fields? We tried it directly from Word and got a message that it could not open a DataSource for our table with memo fields.
>
>We're going to try to change the file layout to use character fields instead, but may be there are workarounds.

Try to copy ... type fox2x into a temporary dbf, and use that as DataSource. As you know, VFP and Word were written by competing, often bitterly opposed companies, so their products intentionally lack support for the latest versions of one another.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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