[Sparre]

Hello

I'm pretty new to the whole mailmerge deal and the various guides to
mail merge haven't really helped me.

I need to print out a series of documents each containing 3 "post
cards", now I need to fill out the the names and adresses and other
various information for each card. I have a Word template containing
these 3 "cards" with a series of merge fields.

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

How can I fill out eg. 13 of those "cards" using C# and a DataSet, and
is there special requirements to the type of mailmerge fields I use ?

Hope someone can help..... )

--
Sparre

[Peter Jamieson]

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.


That's because Word Mailmerge has no way to connect or bind to the data
stored in internal objects in your program. It can only connect to data
using a Word converter (internal/external), DDE, in the case of Access
databases and Excel workbooks, ODBC and OLEDB (and it can't yet use an
ADO.NET source, just in case you were wondering).

Prior to Word 2007, you really have two options:
a. turn your data source into something that Word can use, and use
MailMerge
b. don't use MailMerge - use C# to get the data from your DataSet and use
methods in the Word object to insert that data into your postcasrd document.
For example, you might be able to:
- use a { DOCVARIABLE } field instead of a { MERGEFIELD { field as a
"placeholder" for each item you want to insert
- in C#, for each 3 rows in your DataSet,
- copy the data in the DataSet into the relvant Word document
variables
- update the fields in the document
- print/output the document

There are other possibilities. A lot depends on whether you are trying to
create a completely automated process or whether you are trying to create
something where the users can edit the document and so on (in which case
things obviously get a lot more complicated).

In Word 2007 you have at least one other option, because you can bind things
called "content controls" to data stored in your docx. However, that's about
as much as I know about content controls - I suspect you would still have to
serialize your DataSet into XML at some point to make use of them, but I
really don't know yet.

Peter Jamieson

"Sparre" wrote in message
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Hello

I'm pretty new to the whole mailmerge deal and the various guides to
mail merge haven't really helped me.

I need to print out a series of documents each containing 3 "post
cards", now I need to fill out the the names and adresses and other
various information for each card. I have a Word template containing
these 3 "cards" with a series of merge fields.

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

How can I fill out eg. 13 of those "cards" using C# and a DataSet, and
is there special requirements to the type of mailmerge fields I use ?

Hope someone can help..... )

--
Sparre

[Jason Jakob]

//Example Usage
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.Tables.Add("Leads");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Fullname");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Address1");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Address2");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.City");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.State");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Zip");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Country");

ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Fullname");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Phone1");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Email");

//generate sample data
ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add("Dr. James Brown", "3456 Madison Ave.", "Suite 250", "New York", "NY", "10003", "USA", "Jason Jakob", "519-841-8617", ");
ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add("Dr. Barry White", "The Bellagio", "Room 1021", "Las Vegas", "NV", "28011", "USA", "Jason Jakob", "519-841-8617", ");

//now merge
string errorString = "";
string templateFilename = @"C:\jason\Personal\MailMergeWebApp\bin\intro_lett er.dot";
string outputFilename = @"C:\jason\Personal\MailMergeWebApp\bin\intro_lett er_merged.doc";
if (!MailMerge.MergeDataWithWordTemplate(templateFile name,
outputFilename,
ds,
out errorString)) {
Console.WriteLine("Error");
}


//Utility class to do the merging
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;

using TMMC.CommonLibrary;
using Microsoft.Office;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

namespace MailMergeWebApp {
public class MailMerge {
public static bool MergeDataWithWordTemplate(string sourceTemplatePath, string outputDocPath, DataSet sourceData, out string errorString) {
#region Declares
errorString = "";
Object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; //null value
Object oTrue = true;
Object oFalse = false;
Object oTemplatePath = sourceTemplatePath;
Object oOutputPath = outputDocPath;
Object oOutputPathTemp = outputDocPath.Substring(0, outputDocPath.IndexOf(".doc")) + "_temp.doc";
Object sectionStart = (Object)Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSectionSta rt.wdSectionNewPage;

Word.Application oWord = null;
Word.Document oWordDoc = null; //the document to load into word application
Word.Document oFinalWordDoc = null; //the document to load into word application
#endregion

try {
oWord = new Word.Application(); //starts an instance of word
oWord.Visible = false; //don't show the UI

//create an empty document that we will insert all the merge docs into
oFinalWordDoc = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

//for each record in the dataset
int count = 1;
foreach (DataRow dr in sourceData.Tables[0].Rows) {
Log.Out("MailMerge:CreateMergeDoc() adding a document for this record");

//insert a document for each record
oWordDoc = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oTemplatePath, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
if (oWordDoc.Fields.Count == 0) {
Log.Out("MailMerge:CreateMergeDoc() No template fields found in document:" + sourceTemplatePath);
return false;
}
oWordDoc.Activate(); //make current

// Perform mail merge field
foreach (Word.Field myMergeField in oWordDoc.Fields) {
Word.Range rngFieldCode = myMergeField.Code;
String fieldText = rngFieldCode.Text;

// ONLY GET THE MAILMERGE FIELDS
if (fieldText.StartsWith(" MERGEFIELD")) {
// THE TEXT COMES IN THE FORMAT OF
// MERGEFIELD MyFieldName \\* MERGEFORMAT
// THIS HAS TO BE EDITED TO GET ONLY THE FIELDNAME "MyFieldName"
Int32 endMerge = fieldText.IndexOf("\\");
Int32 fieldNameLength = fieldText.Length - endMerge;
String fieldName = fieldText.Substring(11, endMerge - 11);

// GIVES THE FIELDNAMES AS THE USER HAD ENTERED IN .dot FILE
//field names with spaces in them have quotes on either end, so strip those
fieldName = fieldName.Trim().Replace("\"", "");

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() found word template field: " + fieldName);

//find a matching dataset column
foreach (DataColumn col in sourceData.Tables[0].Columns) {
string key = col.ColumnName;
string value = dr[key].ToString();

// **** FIELD REPLACEMENT IMPLEMENTATION GOES HERE ****//
// THE PROGRAMMER CAN HAVE HIS OWN IMPLEMENTATIONS HERE
if (fieldName == key) {
Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() setting value: " + value);

myMergeField.Select();
oWord.Selection.TypeText(value);
}
}
}
}

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() saving the doc");

//SAVE THE DOCUMENT as temp
oWordDoc.SaveAs(ref oOutputPathTemp, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() closing the doc");

//CLOSE THE DOCUMENT
oWordDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oWordDoc);
oWordDoc = null;

//NOW ADD THE NEW DOC TO THE MAIN DOC
oFinalWordDoc.Activate(); //make current
oWord.Selection.InsertFile(oOutputPathTemp.ToStrin g(), ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

if(count sourceData.Tables[0].Rows.Count)
oWord.Selection.InsertBreak(ref sectionStart);

count++;
}

//SAVE THE FINAL DOC
oFinalWordDoc.SaveAs(ref oOutputPath, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

//CLOSE THE FINAL DOC
oFinalWordDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oFinalWordDoc);
oFinalWordDoc = null;

//now delete the temp file
File.Delete(oOutputPathTemp.ToString());

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() Merge complete, printing document");

return true;
} catch (System.Exception ex) {
errorString = ex.Message;
} finally {
//RELEASE WORD ITSELF
oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oWord);
oWord = null;

GC.Collect();
}

return false;
}
}
}





Peter Jamieson wrote:

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTablewith n
29-Jan-07


I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

That's because Word Mailmerge has no way to connect or bind to the data
stored in internal objects in your program. It can only connect to data
using a Word converter (internal/external), DDE, in the case of Access
databases and Excel workbooks, ODBC and OLEDB (and it can't yet use an
ADO.NET source, just in case you were wondering).

Prior to Word 2007, you really have two options:
a. turn your data source into something that Word can use, and use
MailMerge
b. don't use MailMerge - use C# to get the data from your DataSet and use
methods in the Word object to insert that data into your postcasrd document.
For example, you might be able to:
- use a { DOCVARIABLE } field instead of a { MERGEFIELD { field as a
"placeholder" for each item you want to insert
- in C#, for each 3 rows in your DataSet,
- copy the data in the DataSet into the relvant Word document
variables
- update the fields in the document
- print/output the document

There are other possibilities. A lot depends on whether you are trying to
create a completely automated process or whether you are trying to create
something where the users can edit the document and so on (in which case
things obviously get a lot more complicated).

In Word 2007 you have at least one other option, because you can bind things
called "content controls" to data stored in your docx. However, that's about
as much as I know about content controls - I suspect you would still have to
serialize your DataSet into XML at some point to make use of them, but I
really don't know yet.

Peter Jamieson

"Sparre" wrote in message
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Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Monday, January 29, 2007 4:03 AM
Sparre wrote:

Mail merge from C# using DataSet as datasource
Hello

I'm pretty new to the whole mailmerge deal and the various guides to
mail merge haven't really helped me.

I need to print out a series of documents each containing 3 "post
cards", now I need to fill out the the names and adresses and other
various information for each card. I have a Word template containing
these 3 "cards" with a series of merge fields.

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

How can I fill out eg. 13 of those "cards" using C# and a DataSet, and
is there special requirements to the type of mailmerge fields I use ?

Hope someone can help..... )

--
Sparre

On Monday, January 29, 2007 6:51 AM
Peter Jamieson wrote:

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTablewith n

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

That's because Word Mailmerge has no way to connect or bind to the data
stored in internal objects in your program. It can only connect to data
using a Word converter (internal/external), DDE, in the case of Access
databases and Excel workbooks, ODBC and OLEDB (and it can't yet use an
ADO.NET source, just in case you were wondering).

Prior to Word 2007, you really have two options:
a. turn your data source into something that Word can use, and use
MailMerge
b. don't use MailMerge - use C# to get the data from your DataSet and use
methods in the Word object to insert that data into your postcasrd document.
For example, you might be able to:
- use a { DOCVARIABLE } field instead of a { MERGEFIELD { field as a
"placeholder" for each item you want to insert
- in C#, for each 3 rows in your DataSet,
- copy the data in the DataSet into the relvant Word document
variables
- update the fields in the document
- print/output the document

There are other possibilities. A lot depends on whether you are trying to
create a completely automated process or whether you are trying to create
something where the users can edit the document and so on (in which case
things obviously get a lot more complicated).

In Word 2007 you have at least one other option, because you can bind things
called "content controls" to data stored in your docx. However, that's about
as much as I know about content controls - I suspect you would still have to
serialize your DataSet into XML at some point to make use of them, but I
really don't know yet.

Peter Jamieson

"Sparre" wrote in message
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Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine) Performance
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...data-engi.aspx

[Peter Jamieson]

A handy chunk of code, thanks!

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 06/02/2010 17:35, Jason Jakob wrote:
//Example Usage
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.Tables.Add("Leads");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Fullname");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Address1");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Address2");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.City");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.State");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Zip");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Lead.Country");

ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Fullname");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Phone1");
ds.Tables[0].Columns.Add("Owner.Email");

//generate sample data
ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add("Dr. James Brown", "3456 Madison Ave.", "Suite 250", "New York", "NY", "10003", "USA", "Jason Jakob", "519-841-8617", ");
ds.Tables[0].Rows.Add("Dr. Barry White", "The Bellagio", "Room 1021", "Las Vegas", "NV", "28011", "USA", "Jason Jakob", "519-841-8617", ");

//now merge
string errorString = "";
string templateFilename = @"C:\jason\Personal\MailMergeWebApp\bin\intro_lett er.dot";
string outputFilename = @"C:\jason\Personal\MailMergeWebApp\bin\intro_lett er_merged.doc";
if (!MailMerge.MergeDataWithWordTemplate(templateFile name,
outputFilename,
ds,
out errorString)) {
Console.WriteLine("Error");
}


//Utility class to do the merging
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;

using TMMC.CommonLibrary;
using Microsoft.Office;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

namespace MailMergeWebApp {
public class MailMerge {
public static bool MergeDataWithWordTemplate(string sourceTemplatePath, string outputDocPath, DataSet sourceData, out string errorString) {
#region Declares
errorString = "";
Object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; //null value
Object oTrue = true;
Object oFalse = false;
Object oTemplatePath = sourceTemplatePath;
Object oOutputPath = outputDocPath;
Object oOutputPathTemp = outputDocPath.Substring(0, outputDocPath.IndexOf(".doc")) + "_temp.doc";
Object sectionStart = (Object)Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSectionSta rt.wdSectionNewPage;

Word.Application oWord = null;
Word.Document oWordDoc = null; //the document to load into word application
Word.Document oFinalWordDoc = null; //the document to load into word application
#endregion

try {
oWord = new Word.Application(); //starts an instance of word
oWord.Visible = false; //don't show the UI

//create an empty document that we will insert all the merge docs into
oFinalWordDoc = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

//for each record in the dataset
int count = 1;
foreach (DataRow dr in sourceData.Tables[0].Rows) {
Log.Out("MailMerge:CreateMergeDoc() adding a document for this record");

//insert a document for each record
oWordDoc = oWord.Documents.Add(ref oTemplatePath, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
if (oWordDoc.Fields.Count == 0) {
Log.Out("MailMerge:CreateMergeDoc() No template fields found in document:" + sourceTemplatePath);
return false;
}
oWordDoc.Activate(); //make current

// Perform mail merge field
foreach (Word.Field myMergeField in oWordDoc.Fields) {
Word.Range rngFieldCode = myMergeField.Code;
String fieldText = rngFieldCode.Text;

// ONLY GET THE MAILMERGE FIELDS
if (fieldText.StartsWith(" MERGEFIELD")) {
// THE TEXT COMES IN THE FORMAT OF
// MERGEFIELD MyFieldName \\* MERGEFORMAT
// THIS HAS TO BE EDITED TO GET ONLY THE FIELDNAME "MyFieldName"
Int32 endMerge = fieldText.IndexOf("\\");
Int32 fieldNameLength = fieldText.Length - endMerge;
String fieldName = fieldText.Substring(11, endMerge - 11);

// GIVES THE FIELDNAMES AS THE USER HAD ENTERED IN .dot FILE
//field names with spaces in them have quotes on either end, so strip those
fieldName = fieldName.Trim().Replace("\"", "");

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() found word template field: " + fieldName);

//find a matching dataset column
foreach (DataColumn col in sourceData.Tables[0].Columns) {
string key = col.ColumnName;
string value = dr[key].ToString();

// **** FIELD REPLACEMENT IMPLEMENTATION GOES HERE ****//
// THE PROGRAMMER CAN HAVE HIS OWN IMPLEMENTATIONS HERE
if (fieldName == key) {
Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() setting value: " + value);

myMergeField.Select();
oWord.Selection.TypeText(value);
}
}
}
}

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() saving the doc");

//SAVE THE DOCUMENT as temp
oWordDoc.SaveAs(ref oOutputPathTemp, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() closing the doc");

//CLOSE THE DOCUMENT
oWordDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oWordDoc);
oWordDoc = null;

//NOW ADD THE NEW DOC TO THE MAIN DOC
oFinalWordDoc.Activate(); //make current
oWord.Selection.InsertFile(oOutputPathTemp.ToStrin g(), ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

if(count sourceData.Tables[0].Rows.Count)
oWord.Selection.InsertBreak(ref sectionStart);

count++;
}

//SAVE THE FINAL DOC
oFinalWordDoc.SaveAs(ref oOutputPath, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing
, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);

//CLOSE THE FINAL DOC
oFinalWordDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oFinalWordDoc);
oFinalWordDoc = null;

//now delete the temp file
File.Delete(oOutputPathTemp.ToString());

Log.Out(Log.LOGLEVEL_STANDARD, "DeviceLabelPrinter:SendAndReceive() Merge complete, printing document");

return true;
} catch (System.Exception ex) {
errorString = ex.Message;
} finally {
//RELEASE WORD ITSELF
oWord.Quit(ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject(oWord);
oWord = null;

GC.Collect();
}

return false;
}
}
}





Peter Jamieson wrote:

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTablewith n
29-Jan-07


I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

That's because Word Mailmerge has no way to connect or bind to the data
stored in internal objects in your program. It can only connect to data
using a Word converter (internal/external), DDE, in the case of Access
databases and Excel workbooks, ODBC and OLEDB (and it can't yet use an
ADO.NET source, just in case you were wondering).

Prior to Word 2007, you really have two options:
a. turn your data source into something that Word can use, and use
MailMerge
b. don't use MailMerge - use C# to get the data from your DataSet and use
methods in the Word object to insert that data into your postcasrd document.
For example, you might be able to:
- use a { DOCVARIABLE } field instead of a { MERGEFIELD { field as a
"placeholder" for each item you want to insert
- in C#, for each 3 rows in your DataSet,
- copy the data in the DataSet into the relvant Word document
variables
- update the fields in the document
- print/output the document

There are other possibilities. A lot depends on whether you are trying to
create a completely automated process or whether you are trying to create
something where the users can edit the document and so on (in which case
things obviously get a lot more complicated).

In Word 2007 you have at least one other option, because you can bind things
called "content controls" to data stored in your docx. However, that's about
as much as I know about content controls - I suspect you would still have to
serialize your DataSet into XML at some point to make use of them, but I
really don't know yet.

Peter Jamieson

wrote in message
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Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Monday, January 29, 2007 4:03 AM
Sparre wrote:

Mail merge from C# using DataSet as datasource
Hello

I'm pretty new to the whole mailmerge deal and the various guides to
mail merge haven't really helped me.

I need to print out a series of documents each containing 3 "post
cards", now I need to fill out the the names and adresses and other
various information for each card. I have a Word template containing
these 3 "cards" with a series of merge fields.

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

How can I fill out eg. 13 of those "cards" using C# and a DataSet, and
is there special requirements to the type of mailmerge fields I use ?

Hope someone can help..... )

--
Sparre

On Monday, January 29, 2007 6:51 AM
Peter Jamieson wrote:

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTablewith n

I need to be able to fill out these fields from a DataSet (DataTable
with n number of rows) using C#. All the guides I have been over all
use some form of SQL datasource.

That's because Word Mailmerge has no way to connect or bind to the data
stored in internal objects in your program. It can only connect to data
using a Word converter (internal/external), DDE, in the case of Access
databases and Excel workbooks, ODBC and OLEDB (and it can't yet use an
ADO.NET source, just in case you were wondering).

Prior to Word 2007, you really have two options:
a. turn your data source into something that Word can use, and use
MailMerge
b. don't use MailMerge - use C# to get the data from your DataSet and use
methods in the Word object to insert that data into your postcasrd document.
For example, you might be able to:
- use a { DOCVARIABLE } field instead of a { MERGEFIELD { field as a
"placeholder" for each item you want to insert
- in C#, for each 3 rows in your DataSet,
- copy the data in the DataSet into the relvant Word document
variables
- update the fields in the document
- print/output the document

There are other possibilities. A lot depends on whether you are trying to
create a completely automated process or whether you are trying to create
something where the users can edit the document and so on (in which case
things obviously get a lot more complicated).

In Word 2007 you have at least one other option, because you can bind things
called "content controls" to data stored in your docx. However, that's about
as much as I know about content controls - I suspect you would still have to
serialize your DataSet into XML at some point to make use of them, but I
really don't know yet.

Peter Jamieson

wrote in message
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Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
MSDE (Microsoft Data Engine) Performance
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...data-engi.aspx