I'm going to spit this off to the group that specialises in this kind of thing, however, my first question is "How did you get a connection to mysql from Microsoft Office in the first place?" The people in the mailmergefields group need to know that you are doing this in Macintosh OS 10.4.5 (Unix)...

How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the user to unlink the field with...

I do not speak VBA! I have managed to stop Word from displaying Save As but have finished up with the Word document displayed, but not the result of the merge. I have tried inserting the code for "MailMergeAfterMerge(ByVal Doc As Document, ByVal DocResult As Document)" but that fails. What I would...

Working with Word 2003, Windows XP Home, OE 6 and IE 7. OE and IE are configured to be the default client. In 2006 I tried to sent a letter in Word merge e-mail. Every time I found the mail in Outlook which asked to be the default client! Now, I tried it again with the same results. Outlook...

I copied the code and created Graham Mayor's macro to merge a form letter merge document directly to individual Word documents and it worked. The only problem is that the new individual Word documents did not retain the formatting from the form letter merge. Can anyone help me fix this? If not,...

How do I take a mail merge document and then split it up into individual documents to save each letter in a separate place?

In Word 2003, during the Mail Merge wizard, my Outlook contacts are not showing up, when Outlook is selected as the data source (BTW Outlook 2003 as well). The contact folder in Outlook does have its property set to act as an address book. Thanks

Ok, this is a somewhat complicated one, so bear with me: I have a large document where each page is an "IF" statement followed by a next-page section break. Let's pretend that I'm using the merge field "Animal" as my condition: {IF{MERGEFIELD_ANIMAL}= "BEAR" " Document relating to bears More...

Greets, I have written an app that programmatically connects a mail merge document to a source of CSV data by altering the XML to specify a URL as the data source, and adding the appropriate field definitions. (The UI won't let you do this, even though it offers .ASP files as a possible data...

Hi, I'm trying to do a email merge in word 2003. The directions say to go to Tools, Letters and Mailmerge and under select document type, click E-mail message. The problem is under select document type, I have letters, envelopes, labels, and directory. How can I add email messages?

Can anybody help please? Using Word 2000 (9.0.2760) we are in the process of setting up a mail merge using a standard letter for the main document. The data source comprises in each record, name, address and other data fields. Data will accumulate slowly in each record, but we need to carry out...

I absolutely must have cell margins that are at about 0.05" around the insides of Avery-sized labels #5167. Before changing the margins, the pages of labels are aligned and positioned correctly. The instant I change them to 0.05", the rows all become misaligned and a standard sheet has a row...

Can the DocVariable field be used to somehow initiate Figure numbering? Let me explain. Suppose I have the phrase XYZ in a document. I want to integrate a macro such that each place XYZ appears, a Figure number is inserted instead. In other words, the macro would say, Find XYZ, and replace with...

I have an SQL database that is queried. I use these queries to mail merge in word - with the output going to Outlook - so that each individual email is sent to the individual for whom it's intended. The only problem is that I want to also include a PDF attachment. Is this at all possible? Or am...

hi i made a form using ms word 2003 vba with few textboxes, when the user types in one of the field, e.g. customer ref, the database imports few selected field from databse into bookmarks on word document, e.g. customr name, add, date, etc. i dont want to use the search option in mailmerge to...

I was hoping that someone might be able to let me know what trick is to merge an email list to an HTML format? I have absolutely no problem if I wished to send the merge file electronically using plain text as the Mail format but if I attempt to send the document as HTML it does nothing when I...

Hi, I'm having a problem getting Word to remember the link to its data source for some files. It continually asks to locate the data source and if you point it to the file it just continually loops back and asks for the file location again. If you tell it "No" on the SQL check dialog, the file...

I want to do a mail merge with 400+ recipients. Is it possible to attach a PDF file?

Is there any way to embed the SQL Server connection information right into a Word document? I'd like to be able to e-mail the document to others within the organization without having to navigate them through the process of creating a data source. (They all have access to the SQL server, of...

After a lot of searching of this forum, the knowledge base, and the help files, I can't help but wonder Why can't Word handle dates? Why can't I ask a user for different date information and do calculations on the input?