MailMerge in Access XP problem

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A few months ago, this group was extremely helful in getting my
problem solved in Access 2000. It worked swell... until we updated to
Access XP - now the code does not work... so, it's back to the drawing
board.

Here's the problem as stated in May 03:

I'm still having difficulty with mailmerge to word. Here's the
problem: I have a table which has the following fields: Subject,
Remarks, POC, WeekOF

What I need is a report for a specified week which looks like:

Subject: Remarks POC (where Subject is bold, all Caps, Remarks are not
- lines wrap when they need to).

Example:
CAMP DAY UPDATE: The contractor is approximately 75% complete with
the road repair project. The unit has identified 9.6 miles of road
that it would like re-constructed if funding becomes available. Maj
Isl/LGWC/480-2222

CAMP DAY UPDATE - Subject would be bold.

I tried to do this in an Access Report, but couldn't get the Bold to
work and still get the report format I needed. And... the report
needs to be in Word (eventually) anyway, so I found that using a
mailmerge document got me the formatting I needed!

Here's my merge document:
«Subject»: «Remarks» «POCName» (Subject is in bold - short, sweet
and to the point)

This is a Directory (used to be catalog) merge type. I'm finding this
all to be much more difficult in XP than it was in 2000.

My first problem is I can't seem to find documentation on any of these
calls, so I'm kind of doing the 'trial and error' method (which is not
working). If I could find documentation, I sure could do this on my
own.

Next, before Albert Kallal tells me to look at his simple solution,
your web site says that it is for a SINGLE record - I need the
solution to include many records - I'm using a query as the data
source - so, it appears that the single record solution will not work.

So - Here's what I want to do - programmatically have the merge
execute to a new document and save the new document.

HELP!

Diann
 
Actually, my solution does work for multiple records..the problem is that
MOST people have trouble with ONE record!!! So, I guess I should not make
such a big deal about the "ONE" record feature!!

Download it...and give it a try. There is a button on a form with sample
data and code behind it that merges "all" records.

It might not be what you want, but the "sample" is ready to go..and you can
just try it. So, if it does solve your needs..then you are home free!

http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/msaccess.html
 
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