>I need an easy way to allow users to create, edit and print form letters from a VFP3 application. Here are a few of the features that I would like to include:
>1. Create/edit form letters in Word.
>2. An easy way for the user to insert fields that will be replaced with VFP data (add my own menu to Word listing available fields)
>3. Print a form letter that was created earlier without seeing Word.
>4. Option to merge data with form letter then edit/view before printing.
>
>Any ideas (even better, samples)?
>
>Thanks,
>Shane
Hi Shane,
I haven't done that in Word, but I have done it in Wordperfect,
and basically what I do is create a text file from within Fox with
information from the fields that my forms needs, then I call
worperfect from within Fox, Wordperfect executes a macro that
convert my text file to something that it recognizes as a "Record
description file", and then merge that information with one or
several "templates" or "Forms", previously defined.
I know you can do the same or something much better in word,
look for "merge", "merge codes","Import","DBF",etc.. under the
word help, I have seen samples about that in there.
Good Luck.