""Peter Huang" [MSFT]" <v-phu***@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Ryan,
>
> I think you may consider the VSTO which is introduced from VS.NET 2005.
> We have a special BookMark control in VSTO project, we can use that as the
> insert variable.
> And it support DataBinding which will easierly to connect it onto
> database.
>
> http://www.officezealot.com/VSTO/videos.aspx
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/vsto2/archive/2004/04/29/123027.aspx
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs/archive/2004/09/03/225513.aspx
>
> If you still have any concern, please feel free to post here.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Huang
>
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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> Hi Ryan,
>
> You are correct.
> The VSTO is included in the VSTS version of VS.NET 2005. Or you may buy a
> Visual Studio Tools for Office System develop tools stand alone package.
>
> Word Mail Merge is an approach as you said.
>
> Also I think you may try to consider the Smart Document which is somewhat
> complex than VSTO, but you may have a look.
>
> Smart Documents Made Easier for .NET Developers
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/ht
> ml/odc_SmartDocsWrapper.asp
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Huang
>
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> Peter,
>
> I just clicked on your link to "smart documents made easier" and got a
> message "Page Not Found". I might be interested in "Smart" documents so
> if you have a better link I'd like to know what it is. Thanks.
>
>
> "Peter Huang" [MSFT] wrote:
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> You are correct.
>> The VSTO is included in the VSTS version of VS.NET 2005. Or you may buy a
>> Visual Studio Tools for Office System develop tools stand alone package.
>>
>> Word Mail Merge is an approach as you said.
>>
>> Also I think you may try to consider the Smart Document which is somewhat
>> complex than VSTO, but you may have a look.
>>
>> Smart Documents Made Easier for .NET Developers
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/ht
>> ml/odc_SmartDocsWrapper.asp
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Peter Huang
>>
>> Microsoft Online Community Support
>> ==================================================
>> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
>> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
>> ==================================================
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>

> Ok.. here's my situation.  I have a program that handles a database full of
> people.  Users of the program have the ability to send out notifications to
> these people.  Pretty standard notifications, the program tracks when
> notifications are sent out and who sends them.  Currently these
> notifications are all sent via email.
>
> Now the program users also want the ability to send these notifications via
> standard snail mail.  (I'll make a popup box come up "Do you want to print
> this notification?")  I want to allow the users the ability to modify these
> notifications as well so that will not have to be done programmatically
> if/when notification wording changes.  The notifications need to allow for
> variables to be insert into the document .. for example, the persons name,
> address, salutation, etc.  The document needs to have the capability to
> print not only the document but a mailing envelope as well so my first
> thought as to the document medium is to use Microsoft Word.
>
> Originally my plan was to just have the program save the location (selected
> by the user) of a Microsoft Word document.  The Word document opens and the
> user manually enters the recepient information.  This, however, is an
> undesirable solution.  The users really want the information to be imported
> programmatically, somewhat like a Word mail merge (except it only needs to
> handle one user at a time).  So my next thought is to create a Word document
> dynamically every time a user opts for a printable document.  Not sure if
> this is ideal either because I'm not sure how I'll allow the users to edit
> these documents seeing as how they don't exist as a document, I'd probably
> save the document body information in a database and allow the users to
> modify that.  Anyways, just looking for some ideas here.  Is there any way
> to create a Word document and use variable fields (example: <<First Name>>,
> <<Last Name>>, etc.), then have my program open that document and insert the
> variable data?  Are their any other output solutions (besides Microsoft
> Word) I should be looking at?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Ryan

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> Ryan,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you want to do here. Maybe you don't need any
> sophisticated Word programming, though. If your program already has the
> list of names/addresses in its database, as well as the text of the
> notices, then you could insert everything into a text file, then open
> it in Notepad so the user could print it.
>
> If the notice text is in one or more separate documents, you could put
> placeholders in the text (such as ??name, ??addr1, ??city, etc.) and
> your program could open the text file, put it into a string, and then
> do a Replace function for each placeholder.
>
> Of course, if you have tens or hundreds of names in the database and
> users have to send the notice to many people at one time, that wold
> probably best be handled by programming Word to do a mailmerge.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> Ryan wrote:
>> Ok.. here's my situation.  I have a program that handles a database full
>> of
>> people.  Users of the program have the ability to send out notifications
>> to
>> these people.  Pretty standard notifications, the program tracks when
>> notifications are sent out and who sends them.  Currently these
>> notifications are all sent via email.
>>
>> Now the program users also want the ability to send these notifications
>> via
>> standard snail mail.  (I'll make a popup box come up "Do you want to
>> print
>> this notification?")  I want to allow the users the ability to modify
>> these
>> notifications as well so that will not have to be done programmatically
>> if/when notification wording changes.  The notifications need to allow
>> for
>> variables to be insert into the document .. for example, the persons
>> name,
>> address, salutation, etc.  The document needs to have the capability to
>> print not only the document but a mailing envelope as well so my first
>> thought as to the document medium is to use Microsoft Word.
>>
>> Originally my plan was to just have the program save the location
>> (selected
>> by the user) of a Microsoft Word document.  The Word document opens and
>> the
>> user manually enters the recepient information.  This, however, is an
>> undesirable solution.  The users really want the information to be
>> imported
>> programmatically, somewhat like a Word mail merge (except it only needs
>> to
>> handle one user at a time).  So my next thought is to create a Word
>> document
>> dynamically every time a user opts for a printable document.  Not sure if
>> this is ideal either because I'm not sure how I'll allow the users to
>> edit
>> these documents seeing as how they don't exist as a document, I'd
>> probably
>> save the document body information in a database and allow the users to
>> modify that.  Anyways, just looking for some ideas here.  Is there any
>> way
>> to create a Word document and use variable fields (example: <<First
>> Name>>,
>> <<Last Name>>, etc.), then have my program open that document and insert
>> the
>> variable data?  Are their any other output solutions (besides Microsoft
>> Word) I should be looking at?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>> Ryan
>