Re: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

Actually the RTF scan and replace method can work well.  Don't be afraid 
of it. 

As long as your embedded replacement codes are unique you can easily use 
this technique. 

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Richard Schoen
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message: 3
date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:47 -0000
from: "Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

Hi Jerry

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