mailmerge

Hide the attachment list on the top of the Hotmail mailmerge

Hello, I am just starting to use Microsoft Word or Publisher to sent a Email Newsletter Mailshot to my clients, The attachment list of the photos i have used at the top of the Email does not look good. Is there any way i can use photo's without showing the attachment list on top, or hide the list. Many Thanks David. ...

Web-based document merge solution?

We are looking for a web-based document merge solution. Our application is a web-based project management tool built using Xataface - PHP on Windows IIS + mySQL. We have a function that allows the user to generate a status report in Microsoft Word format based on data in the tool. Currently this function is implemented using LiveD...

Find missing birthdays in Apple Addressbook

I am trying to clean the holes out of my Mac address book. As a first step I want to ask all my friends for their birthday, to be able to congratulate them with cheesy Hallmark cards. I need a "group" in my address book, to mailmerge personalized messages from. This is the Applescript I came up with: tell application "Address Book" ...

MS Word mailmerge like functionality to allow export to Word document from ASP.Net Web application

I have requirement where I need to allow users to upload a Word document with place holders for certain fields which can be found in the database. This will be their template. For example the place holders might be prepended with @@ or something. For example Dear @@Title @@Lastname They then can grab a record and hit export to Word do...

How to do a mailing using a reporting tool?

Env.: Reporting Services or XTraReport, SqlServer Express 2008 R2, VS2008, WinForms, C# Hi All, My WinForms app must send a customized letter to a bunch of people (whose contact info is in SqlServer). This is the typical job for Word Mail/Merge. But I'd like to do it without Word installed on client computers. I'd rather use MS Repor...

Which objects are _not_ removed during mail merge

Executing mail merge in Word removes a lot of objects from the final document. These include text boxes, most function fields etc. I know that comboboxes and checkboxes are kept. Also some function fields like the { DATE } function. What objects are not removed during mail merge? Where can I find a list? ...

Using interop to do a Word mailmerge using C#

I am trying to automate a mailmerge to print mailing labels with C#. I've created a Word template containing the label layout, but when I try to use interop to set the DataSource I am having issues. There are 2 ways I can go about this, either through accessing a SQL table or importing from an Excel spreadsheet. I've had mixed luck in...

MsWord weird identification of language when reading UTF8 text file

Hi, I have to merge a document in MsWord 2003 that includes some Thai characters, to do it I dump the information using UTF-8 charcode. That kind of works ok. Problem is that when I open this text file in MsWord (as it is my DataSource for the merging), it identifies some english characters as if they were foreign language (so not bein...

mail-merge HTML from a database into MS Word

project: Using VB.NET to build a winforms database interface and work-automation app. I am using this editor for the users to enter their text in the database interface environment that will both load/save/show them what they are working on in the form and also mail-merge into a Word document waiting for the content. I can do the first ...

MailMerge.OpenDataSource does not work with network share?

Hello everyone, i do some word mailmerging.. MailMerge.OpenDataSource( _ Name:=m_strDsName, _ setting m_strDsName... if i set a local excel document for datasource: m_strDsName = 'c://documents/somefolder/someexcelfile.xls' everything works just fine if i set the excel document for datasource from network sha...

Mail merge started by VBA in Access let Word open Database again

Hi, I'm working on a Access database which generates some mails with mail merge called from VBA code in the Access database. The problem is that if I open a new Word document and start the mail merge (VBA), Word opens the same Access database (which is already open) to get the data. Is there any way to prevent this? So that the already ...