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  3. January 2007

Re: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

OK. If mail merge (in Windows) isn't what you want, then you could potentially use several other approaches to generating a "document" on the System i. Perhaps a bit more about the solution you envision would be helpful. What languages are you comfortable with? What volumes of documents are you anticipating? 

Pete Helgren



I thought about using mail merge and then discounted it for a couple of
reasons:

1) The need to be able to have (potentially) header, detail and footer data
to be merged and

2) The additional manual steps needed to run the mail merge

Ideally they want to be able to generate the document on the iSeries and
place it in the IFS where Word can find it.  I also thought about generating
an RTF file and including replacement codes such as %%ORDERNO%% which the
programs could overwrite with the correct values, but on looking at an RTF
file's structure it looked too prone to errors.

Thanks

Jonathan

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