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  3. September 2010

Re: RPG Word Mail Merge

I don't see the problem, here...

Have your user create a document, and put something like (#NAME#) and (#ADDRESS#) where they want variables to appear. Save it in DOCX format to the IFS.

Write an RPG program that opens the DOCX document and scans it for the various fields, replacing them with the appropriate data, and writing it back out to the IFS.

Sure it'll take a little bit of programming... but we're programmers, that's what we do. And scan/replace can hardly be called "difficult."


On 9/10/2010 10:00 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
Works great first time -pain to constantly update the letter text
which for use is almost daily because of the number of letters we
have. I would prefer a mailmerge solution that would let a user
department edit the letter text, add the variables where they belong
and not need to play with the document every time they change it. Can
anyone say OfficeVision/400 :)

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