I have a program that acts as an interim print driver, where you select it as
your printer, it generates a pdf and then my program that is running catches
the event to get the file and send it to our server. I need to have address
information to know where to send the document, which is gathered through an
options window that pops up. If someone wants to mail merge in Word ,
though, I don't know how to get the address data fom the file.

Is there a windows message that is thrown which I can catch and strip the
data from the file? Or is there some other way to get the data from the used
data source so I can file my own array and pass the document on to the server
with the correct addresses?

Thanks,

Paul

I'm not aware of any Windows message that would help, other than any which
might be generated already as a consequence of manipulating the data source
fle, printing, saving a new Word document, etc. But I haven't worked at that
level for a long time.

One thing you can do in Word (2002/2003) is use MailMerge events to trap
some Merge events.

I have to say it isn't completely clear what you want to happen in the case
of a MailMerge given that a normal merge to /printer/ always prints as a
single job, not as a sequence of separate jobs, and why you would expect to
find recipient information in the data source.

Peter Jamieson

"Phuff" wrote in message
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I have a program that acts as an interim print driver, where you select it
as
your printer, it generates a pdf and then my program that is running
catches
the event to get the file and send it to our server. I need to have
address
information to know where to send the document, which is gathered through
an
options window that pops up. If someone wants to mail merge in Word ,
though, I don't know how to get the address data fom the file.

Is there a windows message that is thrown which I can catch and strip the
data from the file? Or is there some other way to get the data from the
used
data source so I can file my own array and pass the document on to the
server
with the correct addresses?

Thanks,

Paul