Hiya ...

We do quite a bit of mailmerging here with CSV files that are concocted by a
database system. These are ornery CSV files and Winword (2003) mailmerges
them OK.

Now I would lke to add some (dissuasive) security to these files as some of
them
contain personal data, so I though it would be OK to encrypt the files so as
not to have this stuff available on disks and USB keys and generally
floating around.

Is there any way Winword can decrypt and mailmerge from encrypted data?
Is there any third part stuff out there that could help ?

When I say Encrypted CSV, I mean something like this.
Example of the straight CSV data:
Name;Ad1;Ad2;ZIP;City
Lily;1 Gas Street;;70411;Gasville
Billy;2 Main St;Joborough;Soupsville

which, when, garbled would look like this:
Name;Ad1;Ad2;ZIP;City
GVDVCG;BVKJUY;GTFRFD45;MLOIN;GTFCDXS
HBVBOLK;TREDSEZ;GTFRDES;BVHGFVC

or even this:
DSDQAML;MLQNBGT;YBGTRFE;YHYHBM5;25FDCSM
GVDVCG;BVKJUY;GTFRFD45;MLOIN;GTFCDXS
HBVBOLK;TREDSEZ;GTFRDES;BVHGFVC

So the CSV structure stays in place but the data itself is garbled.

My database can produce Excel files but not encrypted Excel files. Maybe
that will be in the next version.

Thanks for any help,

Richard