How to generate a batch of letters???

[Laurel]

I've generated a lot of labels but putting in a bunch of bound text boxes
that have table values as their source, but now that I want to generate a
whole letter, with bound text boxes for the salutation and some embedded
text, I find I'm stuck. If I create a large text box and/or label, and
paste in the text of my letter, I get a "too long" or "contains invalid
characters" error. Even if I solve that, how would I do something like
this in the middle of the text?


Thank you for your gift of <tblContributions.Amount> this year.

I said I'd produce this before Saturday night..... so early help would be
greatly appreciated. I'm sure there's a simple solution! This has got to
be one of the most common things anyone does, right?

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

Can you consider using word, and mergering from access?

I have a nice working sample that does a merge of the current record to
word.

The sample I have can be found here:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/msaccess/msaccess.html

What is nice/interesting about my sample is that is specially designed to
enable ANY form with ONE LINE of code....

Thus, each time you build a new form, you can word merge enable it with
great ease.

Make sure you read the instructions from above, and you should eventually
get to the follwoing page
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/wordmerge/page2.html


Note that the merge can also use a query, and thus you don't have to merge
just "one" record..

After the merge occurs, you get a plain document WITHOUT any merge fields,
and this allows the end user to save, edit, or even email the document
(since the merge fields are gone after the merge occurs).