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From: Claire Moore <claire.moore@capgemini.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.marketplace,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.tools
Subject: Re: Mail merging to MS Word
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:46:56 +0100
Organization: Cap Gemini UK plc
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Jason Lester wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:48:10 +0100, Claire Moore
> <claire.moore@capgemini.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >I am trying to create some mail merge letters in MS Word & need to find
> >out if there is any easy way to do this. Ideally we would like to create
> >the mail merge letters automatically without the user seeing any of the
> >nasty stuff.
> >
> >At the moment, I am doing a mail merge by creating a text file from
> >Oracle & then opening Word & using an Autonew Word macro to open up the
> >text file & do the merge.  This is fine when the text files etc are
> >stored locally, but now I am having to create multiple letters on a
> >shared drive & will have problems with file naming if I use the same
> >approach.  Does anyone have any ideas ??  Are there any Microsoft or
> >Oracle built-in tools that allow mail merging??
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >Claire
> 
> I guess there is a reason you posted tis to an Oracle group. What are
> you using the mail merge for?? There are a number of Oracle products
> that handle mail merge, ADE (Application data export) and the Sales
> and Marketing module, for example.
> An idea of what you are trying to achieve might help a recomendation.
> 
> Jason


I am using Forms 5 and Reports 3 - What is ADE? Where can I get some
assistance on this. What I want to do is create letters that can be done
from a button click on the form (using data from oracle tables).  Is
this possible using ADE?

Claire