>When using Word for Mail Merge I have been using a table as the data source for documents.....is there an alternative source (cursor etc) I could use?
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>The reason is this:
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>networked app for medical records where individual users need to access patient records and mail merge their details to letters etc in Word. Up to now, I have used a table located on each user's hard drive (c:\ipletters\letm.dbf) to store merge data just in case more than 1 user tries to store merge data at the same time - which precludes one table on the network drive.
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>So - if users could access a patient's record, store their name and address details in a temporary medium, and use this as the data source for Word, this would avoid each user having to have their own LETM.dbf on their hard drive.
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>Any ideas gratefully received!
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>Bob

Word can read from a DBF - but it has to be dBASE format, not FoxPro. I assume the table can be either on a local disk, or on a shared folder.

You can also export from VFP to some other formats, like delimited, which should be accepted by Word.

Another possibility is to insert data from VFP into a Word document (preferably, a table), through Automation.

HTH, Hilmar.