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Selecting print stock in mail merge
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12/06/2009 11:25:14
Gary Foster
Pointsource Consulting LLC
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Title:
Selecting print stock in mail merge
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
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Thread ID:
01405529
Message ID:
01405529
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Hi all,
I’m interested in suggestions on how to handle a mail merge project. I will be generating documents that have a boiler plate letter on letterhead stock of one or two pages (duplex on one sheet, if two) with a merged document attached of one to two pages depending on the data on white stock also duplexed if needed. I'm pretty sure I have this figured out for individual document creation.

What I’m exploring is how or whether to create this as a merge to a single document for ease of review, printing and archiving. That will ultimately depend on user requirements, but what I don’t know how to do is build a document that will print some pages from one tray and others from another tray for a large merge-to-document operation.

Is it possible to partition a document, perhaps using sections, so that multiple letters with defined margins, first page source, other page source, duplex, etc., can co-exist in one document? I've built a number of this type of document in the past., but couldn't figure out how to have it get paper from defined bins throughout the print process.

Even if this can be done, it might not be the best way to go for user work flow with print runs several hundred documents at a time, but I’d love to know how to do this technically anyway.

Thanks,

Gary
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