Its not quite like that... the example I posted showed creating a new serverside word com object that you can then manipulate.
What the process would be (and you have to find the methods, I cant find them at the moment) create a word object, make that object open your mailmerge template, tell the word object to get some data, merge and save the merge as a file on the server, then return that file. MSDN is a good source for these methods I hope that helps a bit! Regards Mark Drew On Apr 2, 2005 11:15 AM, Andy Mcshane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, this looks interesting. This would be ideal if all of the word > document formatting was converted also, i.e. page breaks, header, footer, > etc. I could then run m y mailmerge against the HTML page and print that off! > Maybe wishful thinking!. > > Would you be able to point me any resource that demonstrates how to do a word > mail merge using ASP? Is it actually possible to execute an ASP page from > Coldfusion? I would simply need to be able to pass a document template and > datasource to word, do a mail merge and then save the result to a file that > the user could download and print themselves as word documents, this would be > ideal. > > You can tell it is a Saturday, plenty time to come up with these wish lists! > > > See this page how to convert a word document to html (as an example) > > http://livedocs.macromedia. > > com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp. > > htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00001585.htm > > > > Always remember that you have to have Word installed on the server > > (obvious I know) > > > > MD > > > > On Apr 2, 2005 11:01 AM, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > au> wrote: > > > A COM object may be able to do the same work directly in CF. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2005 5:50 > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: Web Based Mail Merge? (not email!) > > > > > > Hya > > > I know this isnt a LOT of help, but a while back I did some stuff > > like this > > > using ASP. > > > > > > Basicaly in ASP you can create a server object (like an instance of > > MS > > > Word) and then run commands against it. How that translates to CF I > > dont > > > know. > > > > > > If it cant be done with CF have a look at ASP and CF could trigger > > an ASP > > > page to do the merge and then pick up the results > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201262 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
