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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Merge Access and Word

This is a very popular topic in Microsoft newsgroups discussions – how to merge Microsoft Access record or table to Microsoft Word template. There is a very nice solution by Albert D. Kallal, Access MVP - Super Easy Word Merge. Helen Feddema has published a lot of samples to run this task in Access Watch newsletter. Some samples you can also find in Microsoft Knowledge base.
Also you can use native Microsoft Word mail-merge mechanism.
If your are not sure, that your application user can have Word installed – then you can build mail merge solution based on Microsoft Richtext control, like our Messaging sample. Or using Stephen Lebans, Access MVP, RichText ActiveX control.
Happy coding!

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi¨
I have been looking for a solution expand the Super Easy Word Merge so that you get a dialogbox, where you can browse the disk (e.g. c:\) and create a new folder (you type the foldername i a textbox).
Please help me.
I have been looking on the net for about 6 hours to find the solution.


Erling
Denmark
Erling

11:37 PM  
Blogger Alex Dybenko said...

Hi,
Browse for folder dialog code is here:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0002.htm

To create a folder you can use MkDir

6:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Alex

Thank for the quick answer.
I have been on the webpage that you submitted to me.
But I think I must be dumb, because I can not figure out how I have to write the code to make a folder.
It could be:
Create a folder named "test" in the root of C:\.

I just need this routine so bad, because I have promised my friend to make this routine, to make there work easíer.

I think I just have to tell them that I can´t do this job.

Erling

10:07 AM  
Blogger Alex Dybenko said...

Hi,
something like this:

ChDrive "C"
MkDir "test"

8:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Alex
Yes - just like that.

But with the user to select both the drive to make the folder on, and the name of the folder.

I know it is simple, but I just can´t figure it out:-)

Erling

9:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How do I use my existing word doc templates with your code. Everything works fine, however I want to merge into existing templates because they are too difficult to recreate on the fly. I appreciate your suggestions.

11:34 PM  
Blogger Alex Dybenko said...

Hi,
template is almost the same as normal word doc, from mail merge point of view, so what problem do you have using it?

3:31 PM  

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