Re: RPG Word Mail Merge

You can use CGIDEV2 to do it.

1. Create your word document and save it as the new DOCX format, which is
just XML.
2. Edit the XML in notepad or whatever you like, and add in the CGIDEV2
tags for what you want.
3. Copy DOCX file to IFS.
4. Use CGIDEV2 to insert the needed data based on tags you inserted.

I do this all the time for Excel. works great.

HTH,

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi



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Hi

We currently use a visual basic program to mailmerge data from the as400
with word documents stored on our network.. This works well but a pain
when changing versions of word, and we would like to move to something
better.
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We currently use the apache POI api's to create excel documents using RPG,

which works very well, (thanks Scott).

Is anyone using the apache HWPF api which I understand will create word
documents. I'm not sure this is even working yet.

Any suggestions on how to mailmerge word documents using RPG would be
appreciated.

Regards,

Darrell

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