Word as Data Source?

[Pong]

Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Is it possible to use a word document as the data source? If so...how?

Yes, either have a Word document that contains nothing except a Word table,
with one column for each merge field. Put the column names in the first row
of the table.

Alternatively you can have a Word document that contains delimited text
data, i.e. like a .CSV file where the first row contains the column names,
separated by (say) commas or tabs) and subsequent rows contain the data,
separated by the same (comma/tab/...) delimiter.

Connecting to Word data sources can be slow in Word 2002/3.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Peter Jamieson]

I should have said that the advantage of using a table is that if your data
has characters such as ",", """ and line/paragraph ends in it, they can't be
confused with the commas used to separate fields etc. used in a
"comma-separated" type data source.

A disadvantage is the maximum no. of columns in a Word table.

Peter Jamieson