How to create a document assembly application?

Question

Hi,

I need to create a document assembly application and I do not know where to start from. We have a couple of Word templates that are changed based on diferent scenarios and a faster way will be to build an application that will generate a Word document, based on these templates on variouse scenarios.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Any particular reason you're using word? An XML- or text-based format would be far easier to work with.

Also, it might help if you provided some information about what development environment you're planning on using. Accomplishing this in, say, C# will be significantly easier than writing a batch file.

Here's a link to an article that appears to do this in C#.

http://devpinoy.org/blogs/keithrull/archive/2007/05/23/how-to-merge-multiple-microsoft-word-documents-in-c.aspx