We would like to embed our word documents in a database and use a web server
to run mail merges. If I have Microsoft word installed on a local machine,
does it support getting marge data from a URL?

Hi Bob,

We would like to embed our word documents in a database and use a web server
to run mail merges. If I have Microsoft word installed on a local machine,
does it support getting marge data from a URL?

No, word mail merge requires the data to be saved in a file with a
"traditional" file path (either local machine or LAN).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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