Re: Word to Oracle via VBA

Following up on Niall Litchfield, 09 Apr 2003:

> I guess because report writer tools mean that the report writer doesn't
> have to do any programming. (yeah right).

exactly! Haven't yet seen one where that was the case...

> My impression is actually that
> many organisations have the Office suite installed on every PC but never
> think to automate it to streamline business processes. It might be that
> the task is tried and found wanting, but my impression is it is found
> difficult and not tried.
>

It's actually amazing how few sites have tried to use Word or Excel as tools for report development. I do visit many in my current employment and have asked precisely this. Only seen one so far where it had actually been considered and tried and was widely used.

Everywhere else I find people either don't know it's possible, or think it "only works with Access"!

Oh well, I'll just keep using it myself... ;)

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