Exporting/Linking to WordPerfect?

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Sandra

This is what I want to accomplish:

I have a document in WordPerfect that needs to have
fields inserted from my Access database and be launch
from within Access. (Basically picture a Report but in
WordPerfect so that it's fully editable by the user)

This is my plan:

Export data from Access query into a format readable by
WP (CSV or something, I suppose) and perform a merge in
WP.

Is this the best way of going about this? This all needs
to be automated and seamless for the user, of course, so
I would create the necessary macros in WP to run the
merge. Seems to me there should be a better, more
efficient way. Can you point me in the right direction?
The biggest problem I'm having right now is figuring out
what's the best way to get the data into WordPerfect from
the Access query... (I can do some VBA and I'm not afraid
to get into automation and interoperability)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! TIA!
 
Hi Sandra,

Few if any here know much about WordPerfect, and I'm not one of them.
But it shouldn't be necessary to export the data from Access; instead,
check out the WordPerfect documentation on merging from an ODBC data
source.

Going a step further: recent versions of WP can be automated from other
VBA-compatible applications such as Access. Again, check out the WP
documentation.
 
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