I guess you probably made your decisions, but...
a. I don't think there is any simple way to do it
b. Assuming that there is a simple (1-1?) correspondence between the Word
documents and the Excel tabs, I would probably keep it simple and write code
to split the Word document and the |Excel workbook into their constituent
parts and take it from there.

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Peter Jamieson
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> Does anybody have any conceptual guidance on how to handle this e-mail
> merge scenario?
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> Thanks,
> John