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Steffen Grellmann Steffen Grellmann is offline
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Default Checkboxes on mailmerge recipients list

Hi Peter,

thank you for replying.

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:18:49 -0000, "Peter Jamieson"
wrote:

Roughly speaking the checked/unchecked states of these boxes correspond to
the value of ActiveDocument.MailMerge.DataSource.Included for the
ActiveRecord.


This was exactly what I wanted to know for getting started on this
matter. Thank you!

I just want to give you a short response before I'm getting deeper
into it.

In other words, if you want to set or examine the checkbox value, you have
to navigate to the record you want then examine or modify the value of
.Included.


OK, I have checked this but it's not working that simple as it is
described in the F1 help.

However,
a. it isn't particularly easy to manipulate the .ActiveRecord reliably, in
the general case (the facilities for doing this are a bit weird, and if you
do it one way, you'll find that when you iterate through the records, you
will not even see the ones where Included is set to False)


It seems tricky and buggy. I will do some more testing and give you an
response.

b. my recent tests in this area have tended to hang Word.

ACK!

Kind regards,

Steffen