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Thomas, a simple way is to use a series of PC commands via a CL program.
Beef up the PC with memory so it can handle a large Word merge.  There
is some practical limit to the number of merged pages and from your
comments you may be hitting that already.  We've done up to 700 pages of
a pretty simple (RECEIPT) document.

Start Client Access Organizer
STRPCO

Initiate data transfer to .XLS file in IFS (CA Data Transfer)
STRPCCMD pccmd(\\server\path\download.dtf)

DLYJOB dly(4)

Open a Word document template (merge)
STRPCCMD pccmd(\\server\path\invoice.dot

ENDPGM

You need to watch the timing and possibly delete the file from the IFS
prior to the download.

Hope that helps a bit.

Joe Cox

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Gard
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:39 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Quality Batch Printing

We currently are generating invoices and downloading them into word
with a macro on individual users PCs.  We do this b/c the users want
to individually spell check invoices and adjust fonts and its look on
the fly before it gets sent off.  With bigger invoices the word macro
often grinds to a hault, just a pain.

Is it possible to generate invoices on the 400 directly into a word
doc?  Or at the very least how could I generate better looking
documents off of the iseries.


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