Posted by Steve on 04/18/07 12:47

"FredBear" <ThisIsNotMyAddress@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| 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.

if you're server is windows and you have office installed, just use COM()
and create a word object. perform whatever operations need to take place.
then, set the headers appropriately for the browser and echo word's results.
you don't need to break out of php to do any of that.

cheers.

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