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Default Merging from two sources (Word and Access) and updating both

Mail merge can only use a single, flat file as the data source.

To do what you want, you would have to use a macro that amounted to a
"roll-your-own" equivalent to Mail Merge with some added functionality.

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"Shimon" wrote in message
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Hello Everybody,
I have a database where we keep information about or products, which
include Title, minimum price, estimated price etc.
We have a seperate person working on the descriptions of the item, which
are periodically changed and updated.
Each item has a unique Atonumber ID.
I would like to have a word document that has the UID and text, and have
the final document pull theTitle and price info from the DB and the
description from the word document.
Each document has a number of items, but they are not nubered sequentially
(by the autonumber) eventually, we put it into a catalog and assign each
item a lot number.

I will add the relevant files if that is necessary. Right now the files ae
bi-lingual, but i can clean it up.

Thans alot if for any help,
Shimon