Posted by Captain Paralytic on 04/18/07 13:14

On Apr 18, 12:09 pm, "FredBear" <ThisIsNotMyAddr...@Yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the input, People, but I am now running out of the will to
> live reading through it all so I have devised a new strategy.
>
> I am going to do a mail merge in MS Word and upload it to my web site each
> time I add a new name to the database.
>
> The users can then print their Avery address labels straight from the Word
> Document. Not an entirely elegant solution but one which will work.
>
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Funny you should mention mail merge.
You can in fact mail merge into Word with a direct connection to a
MySQL database on the web. The MySQL database just replaces the Excel
Sheet or Access DB. I'll try to root out an example of this as I have
successfully managed this in the past.

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