company software changeover question

[Guest_imported]

Hello,

My company will be upgrading its office applications soon. Can anyone help me figure out how to keep a specific feature found in Corel 7.0 to MS Office 2000.

When a user opens Corel Word Perfect 7.0 they select a pre-made company template. Then the user selects the recipients name from the Corel Company Address book, the selected recipients information (Name, Address, etc.) is then inserted into the pre-made template and then information is added as required.

I have tried using the mail merge and don't believe this is what we are looking for. Can MS Office 2000 do the same thing or is there a third party program that might help?

Thank you,
James

 

[JohnYingling]

I woulkd look at a combination of DocVariables (Insert / Field / Document Automation / DocVariable), VBA code and OLE with Outlook. I've only used DocVariables and OLE with "regular" VB to use Word to print New Acct documents at a bank.

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[Dreamboat]

You can do this without code using the mailmerge query features. Do the mailmerge document, then use the query feature. You'll see they'll be able to type in a last name, for instance, and choose to merge ONLY that record.
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