Re: Mail merging to MS Word

Try, SQLWORD at www.sql-integrator.com

If you are familiar with SQL then this product will do the job.

I use for all simple reports + END USER reporting

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:32:28 GMT, Jenda_at_Krynicky.cz (Jenda Krynicky) wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:48:10 +0100, Claire Moore <claire.moore_at_capgemini.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to create some mail merge letters in MS Word & need to find
>> out if there is any easy way to do this. Ideally we would like to create
>> the mail merge letters automatically without the user seeing any of the
>> nasty stuff.
>>
>> At the moment, I am doing a mail merge by creating a text file from
>> Oracle & then opening Word & using an Autonew Word macro to open up the
>> text file & do the merge. This is fine when the text files etc are
>> stored locally, but now I am having to create multiple letters on a
>> shared drive & will have problems with file naming if I use the same
>> approach. Does anyone have any ideas ?? Are there any Microsoft or
>> Oracle built-in tools that allow mail merging??
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Claire
>
>I don't know if this is an option for you, but there is a Perl module that allows you to process RTF templates.
>It was made for things like this. And it doesn't require Word on the machine.
>
>It was made with Win32::ODBC in mind, it has some predefined statements for this, but since it allows
>ordinary perl code you may use any other way to get to your data.
>
>And of course there are modules for sending mails with attachments.
>
>See http://jenda.krynicky.cz/#Template::RTF
>and http://jenda.krynicky.cz/#Mail::Sender
>
>Jenda
>http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz
>
Received on Fri Jul 30 1999 - 10:07:52 CDT