See the article "Access a database and insert into a Word document the data
that you find there" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/GetDataFromDB.htm

There's all the programming flexibility that you would need in Word. The
wizards have not compromised it in any way.


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Does anyone know of books or other resources that can be studied to
automate letter merges with WORD. I would like to create letters as the
main document in a merge process and then create the merge data files
from a series of databases that do not link to WORD. Using macros I
would select the letter to be merged and the file to be used as the
data input. I had a process setup in WordPerfect in Unix to do the same
thing, but with all of the automatic wizards that WORD has
incorporated, programming flexibility is quickly going away. Any
suggestions or help?