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Word as Data Source?
Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how?
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Word as Data Source?
Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how?
Yes, either have a Word document that contains nothing except a Word table, with one column for each merge field. Put the column names in the first row of the table. Alternatively you can have a Word document that contains delimited text data, i.e. like a .CSV file where the first row contains the column names, separated by (say) commas or tabs) and subsequent rows contain the data, separated by the same (comma/tab/...) delimiter. Connecting to Word data sources can be slow in Word 2002/3. Peter Jamieson "Pong" wrote in message ... Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how? Thanks in advance! |
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Word as Data Source?
I should have said that the advantage of using a table is that if your data
has characters such as ",", """ and line/paragraph ends in it, they can't be confused with the commas used to separate fields etc. used in a "comma-separated" type data source. A disadvantage is the maximum no. of columns in a Word table. Peter Jamieson "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how? Yes, either have a Word document that contains nothing except a Word table, with one column for each merge field. Put the column names in the first row of the table. Alternatively you can have a Word document that contains delimited text data, i.e. like a .CSV file where the first row contains the column names, separated by (say) commas or tabs) and subsequent rows contain the data, separated by the same (comma/tab/...) delimiter. Connecting to Word data sources can be slow in Word 2002/3. Peter Jamieson "Pong" wrote in message ... Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how? Thanks in advance! |
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