filePro report sending to word document

[Walter Vaughan Jr]

If money or time is of no object, it would not be impossible to create a report that is actually a well formed XML that is the content you want on a page, combine that with several other required XML files that have static content, zip the whole thing up and save as a .docx

Then you could use the command line to run word against that file, and since it's a docx, there would be no problems making sure save/save-as are in the correct format.

A cheaper way would be force word to open a text file from your output and teach people they need to do a save as .docx

Mail merge like Nancy proposed could also be an excellent solution if you know your way around it. It seems to have gotten more complicated in Office 365 than it was in Office97.



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From: Filepro-list <filepro-list-bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com> On Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:33 AM
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Subject: Re: filePro report sending to word document

Gary,

That is what WORD calls a mail merge.  You would write the data needed from filepro into a file and then open your WORD doc and mail merge the data into the doc.  I am sure there are macros in WORD that could automate that side.  That is not my area of expertise but I know it can be done.

Nancy

On 10/30/2019 10:36 AM, Gary Crow via Filepro-list wrote:
> Has anyone tried creating a Word Document template from a filePro output like a form letter? It would be nice to fill the Word template with the filePro data then give the user a command line script to open the word doc with the data populated so they can further edit the letter.
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