I started a Word Automation project right when that Granor/Martin book came out so I got it. I didn't really find it that usefull for my purposes but I imagine it would be hard to cover every concievable thing you could do with Word. What I did find extremly useful was MS online documentation at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/officedev/odecore/ODEstartpage.htm

Also I got a lot of good info from the VBA editor in Word. A technique I would use would be to record a macro in word and then go look at the code in the VBA editor. This would not always give me exactly what I needed but it would at least give me a good hint as to where to start looking in the documentation. (to give credit where credit is due I got this technique from Lee Sauer at one of our local user group meetings). Also you will need a .h file to include in your prg so you don't have to look up all those constants that are referenced in the docs. You can download a cool tool from the files section from Rich Strahl that will create one for you. (item #1000 called "West Wind Type Library Parser")


>Is there any documentation on word automation or the ffc _mailmerge?
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>Is the mailmerge class mainly used for creating a mailmerge document in word, rather than printing out the document with the data filled in?
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>I've seen from other posts that I should probably set bookmarks in the word document and then change these bookmarks to the corresponding data for each record printed?
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>Is there a simple example out there somewhere I can look at that takes this process from beginning to end? Creating the documenet to filling in the fields with data to printing?
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>Thanks,
>Paul