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

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/

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?

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

Hope this helps

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?

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