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Robert Nusz @ DPS
I have a client that had an application written in FoxPro which operated
under DOS Systems and not Windows. This application allowed FoxPro Table
record filtration to mail merge with a form letter that was written using
Word Perfect under DOS control. Now this user needs to come up to current
standards, and wants the application to be windows controlled but still wants
to use the form letters from Word Perfect and join this with a Microsoft
Access 2003 Table application. The user's form letter was one file with
multiple (25 to 30) different form letters saved in it. Based upon record
type at the time of mail merge control, it would open this large xxx.pf file,
locate the appropriate form letter, merge the record into the form letter as
a temp.pf file, which would then allow the user to make any necessary
corrections via Word Perfect, then save file and or print the file to
printers for mailout. This function also allowed the user to select more
than one record (say 10) out of the table, with multiple record format (say 4
formats) requirements, pull in the first xxx.pf file, and then generate the
10 different form letters with the 4 different form letter styles all in one
temp.pf file. Is there a way to still use this process with Microsoft Access
2003. Will Access 2003 mail merge with Word Perfect (for Windows, latest
greatest version) and allow the user to still make changes to the form
letters prior to printing and saving? If you need more information, please
let me know, I need to get Access to mail merge with Word Perfect, not
Microsoft Word.... is there a way to pull up the Word Perfect Application
software controls and use access mail merge ?
Thanks,
Robert Nusz
under DOS Systems and not Windows. This application allowed FoxPro Table
record filtration to mail merge with a form letter that was written using
Word Perfect under DOS control. Now this user needs to come up to current
standards, and wants the application to be windows controlled but still wants
to use the form letters from Word Perfect and join this with a Microsoft
Access 2003 Table application. The user's form letter was one file with
multiple (25 to 30) different form letters saved in it. Based upon record
type at the time of mail merge control, it would open this large xxx.pf file,
locate the appropriate form letter, merge the record into the form letter as
a temp.pf file, which would then allow the user to make any necessary
corrections via Word Perfect, then save file and or print the file to
printers for mailout. This function also allowed the user to select more
than one record (say 10) out of the table, with multiple record format (say 4
formats) requirements, pull in the first xxx.pf file, and then generate the
10 different form letters with the 4 different form letter styles all in one
temp.pf file. Is there a way to still use this process with Microsoft Access
2003. Will Access 2003 mail merge with Word Perfect (for Windows, latest
greatest version) and allow the user to still make changes to the form
letters prior to printing and saving? If you need more information, please
let me know, I need to get Access to mail merge with Word Perfect, not
Microsoft Word.... is there a way to pull up the Word Perfect Application
software controls and use access mail merge ?
Thanks,
Robert Nusz