Mail merge for Access Reports

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John MacIntyre

Hi,

3 years ago I needed a mail merging report to fax .. and I needed it fast.
Access reports did not look like they could be merged at first glance and I
didn't have time to research it so I just did it in Word. This has been
unreliable.

Now the people I've written it for are considering redoing it and I am
reconsidering doing it in Access.

Is there a way to do a mail merge with an Access Report? Are there any 3rd
party controls to allow you to do this?

Thanks in advance,
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca
 
John:

Cetainly you can create a template of text stored in a table to use for mail
merge process of sorts. However, Access reports are not really designed to
support great text flow or layout like you might have in a Word processing
document. The best way remains to create a Word template (delinking it
from the original data source) and then using Automation from within Access
launch the template and merge the data in from the database.
 
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