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pope - 15 Feb 2007 15:54 GMT

I am trying to pull a picture stored in access and insert it in my doccument.
Each house we visit has its own info and picture that I merge to a form
letter to send to my clients. I found that word 2003 can not deal with the
data type that the picture is stored. Does the newer version of word handle
this? Is their a work around?

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Peter Jamieson - 15 Feb 2007 16:12 GMT

> Does the newer version of word handle
> this?

Unfortunately not.

> Is their a work around?

Only the general approach described under "Special merges"|"graphic from a
database" on Cindy Meister's web page at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm

Well, there is one other way but it's much harder, also ends up with copies
of the pictures outside the database,
and probably isn't reliable.

Peter Jamieson

>I am trying to pull a picture stored in access and insert it in my
>doccument.
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> handle
> this? Is their a work around?

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Graham Mayor - 16 Feb 2007 07:06 GMT

Notwithstanding Peter's reservations, if you have the images outside the
data source, the procedure is described at
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

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> I am trying to pull a picture stored in access and insert it in my
> doccument. Each house we visit has its own info and picture that I
> merge to a form letter to send to my clients. I found that word 2003
> can not deal with the data type that the picture is stored. Does the
> newer version of word handle this? Is their a work around?

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