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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / April 2004merge fields in the include text.
Hi, I am using the template abc.doc which includes another document in the form INCLUDETEXT "c:\\include\\xyz" "mobjWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields" gives me the merge fields present in abc.doc. How do i retreive the merge fields in xyz.doc, without opening it in word. I mean how can include xyz.doc 's merge field names, directly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Regards, Veena. Hi Veena, > I am using the template abc.doc which includes another document in the > form [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > without opening it in word. > I mean how can include xyz.doc 's merge field names, directly. I'm afraid you can't access the content of xyz.doc without opening it in Word. The only exception: if this were Word 2003 and it had been saved in WordML format (XML), then you could use XPath on it. Note: I can't figure out exactly what it is you're trying to do. Perhaps if you explain in a bit more detai, we can make a suggestion or two. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thanks for the reponse Cindy!! let me explain the problem in detail. I am using Word 2000 and programmatically performing the mail merge using VB. My program includes a logic, where all the mergefields, present in abc.doc have to be compared with the datasource's fields. In case there is a mismatch between the datasource and the doc file , insteading of mailmerge producing an error, an application should throw the error. Well, the actual problem is that, to achieve the above I need ALL the mergefields in the document used for merging including those in the include text. The mergefields present in document abc i can get by WordApplication.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields but how do i get the merge fields of xyz.doc?? { I am using the template abc.doc which includes another document in the form INCLUDETEXT "c:\\include\\xyz.doc" } The workaround would be to retrieve all the mergefields in abc.doc, check for the ones with the word INCLUDETEXT, then open them using word, and retrieve their mergefields and then combine all the mergefields in a MailMergeFields collection object and then use it for my logic. Any comments would be very helpful, Regards, Veena. > Hi Veena, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question > or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thanks for the reponse Cindy!! let me explain the problem in detail. I am using Word 2000 and programmatically performing the mail merge using VB. My program includes a logic, where all the mergefields, present in abc.doc have to be compared with the datasource's fields. In case there is a mismatch between the datasource and the doc file , insteading of mailmerge producing an error, an application should throw the error. Well, the actual problem is that, to achieve the above I need ALL the mergefields in the document used for merging including those in the include text. The mergefields present in document abc i can get by WordApplication.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields but how do i get the merge fields of xyz.doc?? { I am using the template abc.doc which includes another document in the form INCLUDETEXT "c:\\include\\xyz.doc" } The workaround would be to retrieve all the mergefields in abc.doc, check for the ones with the word INCLUDETEXT, then open them using word, and retrieve their mergefields and then combine all the mergefields in a MailMergeFields collection object and then use it for my logic. Any comments would be very helpful, Regards, Veena. > Hi Veena, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question > or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi Veena, thanks for the additional information :-) Have you actually tried whether your code retrieves the mergefield names (? that's what you're after, right?) in the IncludeText area? In my experience with Word, as long as the IncludeText result is displayed on screen, those mergefields should be "visible". The following snippet assumes I have only one field in the active doc, an IncludeText field. If I query the fields in that fields range, I get all coming through from the linked file, and can address them as if they were in the active doc Dim rng As Word.Range Set rng = ActiveDocument.Fields(1).Result Debug.Print rng.Fields(1).Code > I am using Word 2000 and programmatically performing the mail merge > using VB. My program includes a logic, where all the mergefields, [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > mergefields in a MailMergeFields collection object and then use it for > my logic. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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