Threads Replies Last Post 168 Pages: <<  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  >>   error msg. "External component has thrown an exception" My fax system, automates MS Word and does a Mail/Merge operation using a Word document and an Access database. I look for marker characters (?) in the word document and replace them with merge fields. The program would stop at the Find function and give the error message: “External component has thrown an exception” . Here is a code excerpt with the problem statement highlighted: ... 3 3/14/2007 3:16:28 PM capturing data FROM a merge document I am emailing an HTML document to people who attended a seminar we put on last week. I am using WORD with data from an EXCEL spreadsheet as the merge source. The merge field I am interested in is called "EMAIL" and, to no one's surprise, is the recipient's email address. On this HTML document I have a hyperlink that sends the recpient to an HTML form located on our website where they are as... 4 3/14/2007 1:55:17 PM Section breaks in label merge new document (Word 2003) A friend has a major problem with a 250 page label mail merge document. He needs to change some page layout settings for the whole document but it is only letting him change the first page. When he tries to "apply to whole document" it comes up with a "fix margins" box that won't go away unless he applies it to the current section only. I have replicated this on my own computer as wel... 5 3/14/2007 12:48:35 PM Is there a way to sort the DB fields in Word's mailmerge field lists? I have written an app for my customer that helps them create Word Template documents, but they have a choice of 30 or so fields - which makes it tedious to look through it to find the one they want. Is there any way to sort that list? (Other than rewriting my query!) Help much appreacited Clive ... 3 3/14/2007 11:14:04 AM Displaying mailmerge fields I'm not sure what I've done, but where I used to be able to view the merged data in mailmerge documents, I now see fields like { MERGEFIELD name } instead. I thought I'd find something under Tools/Options/View, but haven't had any luck. Many thanks in advance!... 3 3/14/2007 11:09:20 AM Conditional Currency/Text Field Format in Merge I have a field in an Excel spreadsheet that can be either currency or text. I mail-merge it into a Word document. The field contains donation info, which may be things like "$25.00" or "4 tickets to ABC Theater". When I add the switch to get the currency to format correctly, it messes up the format when the field contains text. If I get the $25.00 to format correctly after the merge,... 4 3/14/2007 11:06:17 AM how can a fax template be automated? hi just a quick lesson please... 2 3/14/2007 7:12:56 AM Merge Email with cc contacts to specific individuals Hi. I'm doing a merge using word/email and want to cc specific people in to certain emails, but not all of them. Is it possible to link one email address with one "cc to" email address? Thanks... 4 3/14/2007 1:26:49 AM Mail Merge question in Word 2002 Hi, I'm trying to do a mail merge label so that all members of a specific group get a label with their name on it, along with the names of the other members of the group below it. Something like this: Don H. Mary K. Jane D. Peter M. Kelly B. The next label would be: Mary K. Don H. Jane D. Peter M. Kelly B. There will be about 200 people total, divided up into 30 group... 4 3/13/2007 10:32:01 PM How do I use the column feature in creating File folder labels? I'm looking to have four pieces of data on the file folder label. I've spent a good deal of time looking to create a column effect where two items are justified to the left and two items are justified to the right. ... 2 3/13/2007 9:40:00 PM Sections in Merge I have set up a merge in Word 2003 that I run from Access 2003. When it merges, it creates Section Breaks before each new record. I want it to create Page Breaks instead. Does anyone know how to do this?... 5 3/13/2007 9:04:33 PM Is it possible to Mailmerge to Email And attach additional files? My customer wants to send out a newsletter to subscribers as an attachment to personalised emails. I.E. "Hi <<Subscriber Name>> Please read attached newsletter Regards etc. " I can't see how to attach files to Word's mailmerge output. Does anyone know a way of doing this in MS Office 2003? (I can't see any mailmerge in Outlook) As always, help much appreciated.... 2 3/13/2007 8:31:50 PM How do I create a label in Word 2007? I can create mailing labels in Word 2007, but let's say I want a label to read "Keep Off" and I need it to populate in all the labels on the sheet. Is there an easy way to populate without having to cut & past into each label???? Thanks... 4 3/13/2007 5:24:36 PM Word gives Automation error: "The object invoked has disconnected from its clients" after Executing to Email This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C7657A.5E65E4E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm writing an app in VB6 to use Word 2003 to send out the result of a = Mailmerge to Emails At .Mailmerge.Execute it actually works - puts the emails in Outlook's = Outbox - but then it Errors giving the ... 3 3/13/2007 5:15:37 PM Word and Microsoft Mail How can I import addresses from Vista Microsoft Mail contacts into Word 2007, e.g. for envelopes and labels?... 5 3/13/2007 12:24:00 PM email merge and attachments I have successfully produced an email using the merge in Word. However, is there any way of adding an attachment to each email - clicking on email merge just sends the email thanks ... 4 3/13/2007 7:07:48 AM Using Mail merge for multiple documents What I am trying to do: I use multiple forms on a daily basis to route work thru our shop. I end up opening each doc and adding/editing alot of information. I want to be able to set up the forms with mail merge so I can fill in a single form and fill in all the blocks required. What I have done so far: I have edited all my forms to add the merge information, I have even linked all th... 4 3/13/2007 5:00:57 AM Mail Merge Question Hello, After I perform a mail merge and I have all my letters in one word document, is there a quick way to separate each letter into a separate file. I need to save each merged letter as a separate file as I need to distribute each letter separately in an email. I am using Word 2003. Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Dee... 2 3/13/2007 4:53:31 AM Avery Labels in a word document I have 8 pages of labels right now. I used an Avery template and it works pretty good. My question is: Is there any way to arrange these lables within word? Like ABC order or in order of city? If that's not possible where can I put all these address to arrange them? We send info to diff. counties and right now these counties are on diff. pages which makes it hard to check for duplic... 2 3/13/2007 4:52:55 AM Mail merge - using multiple field switches Hi I have successfully created a mail merge letter that includes the following field: { MERGEFIELD "Bonus" \b "in recognition of your peformance in 2006, you will receive a bonus payment of £" \f". " } where "Bonus" is the datafield in my Excel database. Can anybody tell me how to also incorporate a switch to format the bonus value that is picked up from the Excel database that ... 7 3/12/2007 9:12:57 PM Merge field+if statement+phone numbers I have a form file in Word 2000 that merges with an Excel Database. One of my fields is a telephone number. I want to do two things with that telephone number. One format as (000) 000-0000 and if that Excel telephone field is blank when the merge takes place, I do not want the telephone number to print at all. I want the field to appear blank on the final merged document. However, i... 6 3/12/2007 8:36:04 PM Nested Merge field saves as merged with first record in excel I am trying to merge a Word document with an excel file where the excel file has numbers 1,2,3 which I want changed to words when merged with the Word Document. I am able to make the merge work but the merge fields always saves as merged with the first record in the excel file even if I do not complete the merge. How do I get Word to save with the merge fields remaining as merge fields... 4 3/12/2007 8:31:19 PM Text field lost in merge I used the forms tool bar to add a text form field in a mail merge form. What appears is a series of little circles and a gray background. Normally, if you add something to that field, it will disappear being replace by whatever content is added. However, when I added this field to a mail merge form and then produced the merged letter, the field is lost and what appears is a number of... 2 3/12/2007 6:19:23 PM use several names in an address block field I'm want to print envelopes using mail merge. In my data source (excel), some of my fields have 2 names for one address. I entered these fields in the data source by clicking <ctrl> <alt> to have two names in the same field. However, when going to print in word's mail merge, the <ctrl> <alt> comese up as a little square. How should I enter the multiple names in e... 2 3/12/2007 5:27:49 PM Fax with word 2007 - complete crash I have just upgraded to Office 2007 and try to fax from word by to printing to the fax-printer. When I do, the fax-guide opens and I choose the recipient from the adress-book. When I push th next-button word and the fax-guide crashes. I have sent fax outside of word and it works. Does anybody recognize this? TIA Leslie... 3 3/12/2007 5:05:13 PM 168 Pages: <<  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  >>