Re: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan,

I haven't read the book but building a mail merge document that uses 
System i data and Word is fairly easy.  If you are using iSeries Access 
you should have the ODBC driver installed.  You can use that as a 
datasource to query the System i data and return it to your merge 
document.  This would not be unique to the System i.  Any database that 
has an ODBC driver can be used in a merge document.

There are plenty of resources on the web that can tell you how to build 
a merge document with ODBC.  Unless you are trying to do something more 
than that, using VB scripting (macros) or something more sophisticated, 
it is a pretty straightforward solution.

Pete Helgren


Jonathan Mason wrote:
> Hi List
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> Has anybody got or read the book "Microsoft Word and the iSeries" by G.
> Wayne Hawks?
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> I have a customer who would like to have their AS400 (and I use the name
> generally) data incorporated into Word documents.  At a price of $395 (or
> £395 in the UK) I want to be sure that I can achieve what they want using
> the book for guidance before spending that much money.
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> Are there other alternatives available for getting data into Word?  Ideally
> what they would like is to be able to create a template in Word and generate
> a report using the template.
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> Thanks
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> Jonathan 
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