Aside from the issues that have been raised by Peter, does anyone understand
what the OP means by:

I have a data source that contains two tables - table one has an id1
and some other fields and id1 is the primary key, table2 has as its
primary key id2 but also contains id1 from table1 for linking.

I want my word document to ask for a value for id2. And the select id1
and id2 if and only if table1.id1 equals table2.id1 and table2.id2
contains the value that i was asked for intially.

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From: Peter Jamieson
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.mac.office.word,microsoft.public. word.mailmerge.fields
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:54:19 +0100
Subject: fields queries and utter disaster

Still no obvious way to do it here - it's possible to get the data via
Excel
and the Excel VBA Help gives an example of how to do it programmatically,
but I haven't been able to get it to work so far (again, on Office 2004).
Next opportunity to look is in a couple of days' time, but I'd have
thought
someone on the Mac side had had a thorough go at this and knows what's
feasible.

Peter jamieson


"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in
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My Bad... The OP did specify Office X...

In which case the following link may help:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherpr...pid=usingoffic
ex&type=howto&article=/mac/LIBRARY/feature_articles/officex/xl_ODBC.xml


On 29/4/06 7:38 PM, in article ,
"Peter
Jamieson" wrote:

Hi John etc.,

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) using Microsoft Office 2004.

I had the impression that it was using Office X, but unfortunately I am
much
more ignorant on Mac issues and can only experiment with Office 2004,
i.e.
(a) do not know whether it is possible to connect directly using ODBC
with
Office X and
(b) what the appropriate syntax for OpenDataSource (or a { DATABASE }
field, if that is what the questioner wants) would be on Mac.

On the Windows version this is doable partly because it's possible to
specify "" as the Name in the OpenDataSource call when the ODBC DSN is
a
machine DSN (i.e. in the registry), or use a file DSN.

If someone on the Mac side knows the answer to the general ODBC
connectivity
questions maybe we could get a little bit further.

Peter Jamieson

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote
in
message ...
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) using Microsoft Office 2004.

This is a specialist area, and I am by no means a specialist.
However,
I
think your answer will be something along the lines of "You need to
use
the
Database toolbar to insert the database into your data source as a
Word
table." Once you have done that, you can then query the fields in
that
table.

Hope this helps

On 28/4/06 8:37 PM, in article
,
"
wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to solve the following.

I have a data source that contains two tables - table one has an id1
and some other fields and id1 is the primary key, table2 has as its
primary key id2 but also contains id1 from table1 for linking.

I want my word document to ask for a value for id2. And the select
id1
and id2 if and only if table1.id1 equals table2.id1 and table2.id2
contains the value that i was asked for intially.

or to put it in mysql language

SELECT Table1.ID1, Table2.ID1 FROM TABLE1, TABLE2 WHERE Table1.ID1 =
TABLE2.ID1 AND TABLE2.ID2 = ?

I can access the table, my problem is that I cannot figure out the
proper syntax for MSWords fields

As far as I can tell I should be able to do this using IF combined
with
ASK but I've spent the better part of my day not getting any closer
att
all.

I would really appreciate any help.

I might add i would like this to be don on saving or printing but
only
once for each document .. so if its opened again it will not ask ..
in
other words if the fields are filled in dont ask. But I'll settle for
just getting the first part!


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