>I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how to tell Word to open the data for a mail merge. The data file is an Excel spreadsheet.
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>So far I have...
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.
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>...and have tried...
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Name = m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource.name=m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource.DataSource.Name=m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource.ShowWizard.DataSource.Name=m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource=m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
>oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource.DataSource.Name=m.dir+"data\labels.xls"
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>I've been receiving "'Name' not a by reference property" or "parameter not optional".
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>Sure hope I'm getting close!
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>Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.
>
>Martha
oWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource(m.dir+"data\labels.xls")
VFP uses only positional parameters. Office and other products can use named parameters. So you must know the full syntax of the method.
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