Word understands a number of command line options, but not "an input file".
So you will need to write some Word VBA that grabs the command line from
Windows (e.g. using a win32 routine) and gets the file pathname and anything
else you need, and proceed from there.

Peter Jamieson.


"cjobes" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I need to start Word from cmd supplying a merge template and and imput
file.
Is it possible to submit those parameters so Word will start and
automatically perform the merge without user intervention?

Thanks,
Claus