Re: DDE Oracle ==> MS Word

Hi,
You can use DDE in Forms 4.5 (Windows version) by using the internal package DDE. You'll find help on which sub-procedures and functions to use in the Internal help for forms.

As Forms 3.0 is NOT a windows program, I don't think you'll have any luck using DDE. But you can parse data anyway, it's just more complicated and takes a lot of efford to get working. The essensial is, parsing a file into a Word Macro. You create this file via SQL*Plus. SQL*Plus can be hosted through Forms 3.0. You call a BAT/CMD file, which starts SQL*Plus creating a file. Then you call Word, indicating a Macro/Dot-file that reads the datafile into Word.

I have a old Forms 3.0 system that does that, but with WordPerfect not Word.

Jelte Jansons <jelte.jansons_at_tip.nl> wrote in article <01bbeb80$d3963b40$441db18f_at_t603334>...
> Hello,
>
> I am busy trying a connection between Oracle 7 with Forms 3 or Forms 4.5
> with MS Word. I know DDE can do the job partially. How can I use this in
> Forms 4.5? Do I need a special package?
> Is there a way to get DDE in Forms 3.0?
>
> Does anybody know a tool I should buy to get my Oracle DBMS data into
> several MS Word documents?
>
> Thanks and merry xmas.
> Jelte
>
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