>But with the given information there seems to be a lot of
>datacollection and preparation on an individual basis. I.e. If You have
>one hundret letters You have to print there might be one hundret totally
>different looking letters, right?

I don't think so, at each run they will only be using one particular combination of objects and one layout so just one letter.

>
>As I am not too bad in doing theese things in VFP, but a poor Word-macro-programmer, I would either completely control this from within VFP (let
>them create their Templates the way they are used to)
>
>or
>
>- the idea just came up - create a comServer that is called from word
>(don't know if that works on a per letter-basis, but definitely
>worth the try). This would create the dataset for the current client
>and return it in a standard format.

I think that's probably beyond me at the moment!

Like you I'm very happy in VF I just can't get my head around the sub merge. In WordPerfect you have the option to merge from a different data file then continue with the original merge. I wonder... is it possible to run a mailmerge but leave merge codes in it, then use that result as a merge main document......?

I think I'll have to look into that - thanks for all your help so far, any other thoughts would be gratefully received.

Caroline