Word Mail Merge from an ASP page using an AccessDatabase

Hi all, I have an access database which contains client details. This database
can be searched using an ASP page. What I want to be able to do is click a
button next to the client's name that will call up a Word document (which is a
preformatted mail merge document) and add all the clients details to the mail
merge fields. Is this possible? Is there an extension to DWMX that I can buy to
do this or code from scratch? Please help!! Thanks all Dan

You'd probably have to use the office components to do this. I wouldn't know
how to do it myself off the top of my head, but I wouldn't imagine there's
an off the peg DW extension for this as it's fairly specialised. If you had
the office components on the server you could do the merge server side
(possibly) and then stream the file through the browser to the user when
it's done. Installing the office components on a live web server is
generally considered to be a bad idea though. Your best bet would be to try
one of the office developer forums over at the news.microsoft.com news
server and see if one of the peeps over there might know the best way to do
something like this.

HTH,

Cheers,

Tim.


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