mail merge

[Pawl Rachet]

Hi, I typically do mail merges via ODBC, however, my current database
provider does not which to expose his database (MySQL) to anything
other than local host. Still, I would like to do a mail merge from a
remote source (e.g, an ASP or PHP generated tab-delimited file). I
was not able to use an HTTP address as a mail merge data source, and I
don't really want to force my clients to download a local copy. Any
ideas? Thanks.

PR

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Pawl,

Hi, I typically do mail merges via ODBC, however, my current database
provider does not which to expose his database (MySQL) to anything
other than local host. Still, I would like to do a mail merge from a
remote source (e.g, an ASP or PHP generated tab-delimited file). I
was not able to use an HTTP address as a mail merge data source, and I
don't really want to force my clients to download a local copy. Any
ideas? Thanks.

Word mail merge *requires* a file stored in the "traditional" manner,
i.e. locally or in a network path. Your only alternative would be to
automate Word in order to produce the merge result, feeding in the data
directly (which means you at least wouldn't need a separate file).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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