Creating a MSWord-readable rich-text document

[Mandu]

Hi,

A customer wants a script to generate a "mail merge" from a small found set of People, creating a separate document for each letter. He wants to be able to open them in MS Word for additional editing, before printing them.

I can define a layout with merge fields, no problem, but I have no idea how to write it (preserving the text stylings) to a file that can be read by Word.

A long time ago I tried doing this the other way around, getting MS Word to do a mail-merge by accessing Filemaker, but it flopped horribly - finally turned out there were some known bugs in Word's ability to talk to FM. :-/

Is there any way to get FM10 to convert an all-text layout to some sort of Word-readable rich-text file format ?

Thanks for any suggestions, simple or convoluted ;-)

Chap

[comment]

See:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/179339/

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/190284/

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/191652/

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/202417/

[Mandu]

Thanks - it looks like EZxslt would be the easiest route. My only concern is that the documentation at chapsoft.com appears to be from 6 to 8 years old, with references mostly to FMP6, no mention of Intel Macs, etc. Are others in the forum using EZxslt on current releases of MacOSX, Windows, and Filemaker?

[tv_kid]

I've used EZXSLT for years with great success, most recently on FMP10, OSX 10.6.

Hope this helps

[Stickybeak]

Me too - and then i went and upgraded to Lion to find that ezxslt was a power pc app and wont work with lion....any comparable solutions?

[HunterBoss]

I've sent an email to them and they haven't updated it yet, but said they will soon.