Commandline switches Word Mailmerge

[Jet]

We want to create a cmd file to schedule MS Word Mailmerge. Every time a
external file is available, mailmerge had to be started.
Are there any commandline switches available for MS Word Mailmerge? For
example to type the location of the datasource and to type the name of the
mailmerged document? And of course the execute the mailmerge?
Thanks in advance

 

[Cindy M.]

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We want to create a cmd file to schedule MS Word Mailmerge. Every time a
external file is available, mailmerge had to be started.
Are there any commandline switches available for MS Word Mailmerge? For
example to type the location of the datasource and to type the name of the
mailmerged document? And of course the execute the mailmerge?

No. The only thing you can do with the commandline is specify the main merge
document (the document to be opened in Word).

You'll need to automate the Word application if you want any of this to
happen without user intervention.

Or avoid mail merge completely and use the Office 2007 OpenXML file formats
to generate the documents - avoid using Word completely.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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