For mail merge under Microsoft Word, you need a data source containing data to be merged with the main document. It would be especially useful if this data could be taken from the database. There are two ways of creating data sources with data from the database: the needed data can either be inserted into (see Section Inserting Data from ADABAS) or linked with the data source (see Section Linking Microsoft Word Documents with Data).
Linking data from the database with the data source has the advantage that you can easily actualize it at any time without having to keep the search request in the memory. In this way, it is also possible to define and "distribute" links that other users only need to actualize.
To create a data source, open a new document. You can either create links for data from the database (see Sections Linking Microsoft Word Documents with Data and MS-Word Link) or insert data directly into the document (see Section Inserting Data from ADABAS). Later on, this data source will provide the data for the main document. If you have created links, actualize the links in the data source (see Section Linking Microsoft Word Documents with Data). If the data meets your requirements, save the data source.
To create the actual mail merge document, select Tools Mail Merge under Microsoft Word (see Microsoft Word documentation). Then attach the previously created data source to the main document. The full Microsoft Word mail merge functionality is then available to you.
The ADABAS data linked to the data source can be actualized by a mouse click. Three mail merge buttons allow you to use the functionality of QueryPlus links without changing to the data source every time:
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The buttons have the following meanings, from left to right:
1. Add Mail Merge Link
2. Actualize Mail Merge Link
3. Modify Mail Merge Link