I'm writing a web app (Java) which allows users to select contacts. The contacts details can be downloaded (currently in CSV format) and used to perform a mail merge in Word 2007. I would like to use a format which is a bit more 'robust' than CSV. Those of you in non-English areas will know the comma/semicolon problems! Which format wo...
Is there some way to have the Mail Merge capability in my application? Maybe a MS Word API? ...
I am using Aspose (.NET/C#) to generate a word document which contains multiple mail-merge fields. However as I have one methode handling a couple of different templates, not every merge field may get handled/merged. Is there a way to set a default "text" value for merge fields? ...
I am setting up a Microsoft Word mail merge for a client. The datasource is a view created in a SQL 2005 database. I would like to restrict the records by date for any given run of the mail merge, is there a way to have MS Word prompt for the date at some point; either when opening the data source or starting the merge? Thank you, Br...
I've got a database View in SQL Server 2008 and when I run it from Query Analyser, it runs within a couple of seconds. When I run it in Excel 2007, it loads the data just fine. But when I run it in Word 2007 on a mail merge, it just seems to take a very long time to run (literally minutes to run). If anyone has an idea how to solve this...
I'd like to generate itemized bills for a non-profit as a Word mail merge. Right now, the source data is stored in Excel in a pivot-table-like structure (this wasn't my idea) with two cells (owed and paid) per item type per customer. (Each customer has one row, and each item type has two columns). The existing data is in this struct...
I want to create a PowerPoint template. I want the template to have references to items like NAME and the like based on an external source. I know with WordprocessingML I can just make a reference to an XML file and supply an x-path, but I also hear this is not supported in PowerPoint. So how do I do this with PresentationML? Are repeat...
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with doing mail merge from Java on a word document? I need to support both doc and docx formats. I have heard of Apache POI and docx4j. However, from reading around I'm sure how good the word support is in POI. docx4j only supports docx format as far as I can see. Can any suggest either one o...
What is the best way to do this. I dont have access to the database since it is firewalled. It needs to be done throught the web interface. I can generate a csv file and plug it into the word document, but it seems cumbersome to me. Is there any better way to do this? Thanks Edit:For future reference i ended up using a library called...