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Best way to use a flexible word table with printmerge
I have a standard report which is produced using Word and Excel (printmerge).
In the standard report, I have tables which can vary (lines name, number of items, column width) I have try different solutions (2) and all of them have signifiant problems. Does anyone have already done something like that ? Approach #1: I have add all tables in Excel and link it to Word using: Link Excel.Sheet.8 "Variable_path" "Variable_cells". The tables are very flexible but I have the following problems: 1- Standard Excel Underline height is defined as 1/2 point in Word and I would like to have 1/4 point in Word (Would like to find a way to adjust Word height in excel) 2- The link is not stable, Word 2003 SP3 jam often. 3- The file path name must be inside excel as a variable; I would like to point directly to the same excel file as printmerge. Approach #2: All tables are make inside Word using variables. Since I want a line between each table line, I can't put all conditions in a box. The problems with this Approach a 1- The table column width can't be adjusted. 2- Since I want to have border between each elements, I have to create split the table in n box with condition on each box. It always insert one empty line between each elements. ex: IF( Mergefield Item9 ) "" " Table with border " "") (this give a line between each table line) would like to have: ex: IF( Mergefield Item9 ) "" "Table with border" "") (Impossible to add " in the same line as the table line) Does it exist other solutions to my problem ?? Is there a table merge function in Word ?? (Only one excel data line is used for the text merge and tables could takes source from excel) Thanks. -- Alex St-Pierre |
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Best way to use a flexible word table with printmerge
Replied to duplicate question in the docmanagement
newsgroup (as well as in word.tables) Cindy Meister |
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