Hi all,

I have an application that creates a mergedocument in
combination with a textfile that acts as the datasource.

Now I wonder if there is a possibility to merge the
document without Word creating a new document ? What I'd
like to do is to merge the datasource into the main
document (so no extra intervention is needed to overwrite
the main document with the newly generated one, that
option works but it swaps the screen several times and is
not very performant).

Other option I have tried is to print merged, so the
document remains unchanged. But in this case, in Word 98
& 2000 I get an extra dialog (print) which I don't want
to appear. This seems to be a known issue and I wonder if
there is any known work-around (merging first to a new
document is for the same reason given above not
applicable: swapping of the screen and performance).

Next to (mail)merge, what other options could I possibly
use to address a letter to several addressees (in order
to avoid the problems mentioned above, especially speed
is an issue) ?

Any help appreciated
Glenn