[Philip Ruelle]

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible 'out-of-the-box' to use a URL as the
data source for a mail merge or whether there are any plans to support
this? I'd have thought with the backing that MS are giving web services
this is one of the first things they'd have put into Office 2007.

I've tried it in Word 2002/XP, 2003 and 2007 Beta 2 but it appears that
the datasource either has to be local or FTP (at least that option is
available in 2007 beta 2). It seems bizarre to me that HTML was
designed as a web page description language and yet you can't access it
via the very protocol that HTML was written to be used on. Surely it
must be me doing something wrong....

Thanks,
Phil