Mail Merge concept in VB.net

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hi,

My Code:

VB

Dim wrdMailMerge As Word.MailMerge
myApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
myDoc = myApp.Documents.Open("DOC. PATH")
wrdMailMerge = myDoc.MailMerge
wrdMailMerge.MainDocumentType = Word.WdMailMergeMainDocType.wdFormLetters
wrdMailMerge.Execute()
myApp.ActiveDocument.SaveAs("DOC. PATH")

wrdMailMerge.Execute() in this line throwing Error given below,

This method or property is not available because the current mail merge main document needs a data source.

I want to connect mail merge without DSN.

pls help me out.

Regards
Rajesh V

Posted 23-Apr-13 1:16am

Rajesh Vetrivel

Updated 23-Apr-13 23:22pm

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Solution 1

I've personally never done this before, but just from reading the error message it sounds like you need to set a datasource. If you were going to manually mail merge a document in Word, you'd have to provide a datasource for it. For example, if your word document was a letter and you wanted to mail merge to a comma delimited text file that contained names and addresses, your data source would be the .txt file.

You can find some general help just from google[^].

The first result here[^] has a code sample.

VB

objWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource("YOUR DATABASE PATH", _
               Connection:="dsn=DSN NAME; dbq=" & YOUR DATABASE PATH & ";", _
               sqlstatement:="select * from `" & tableName & "`")

This person appears to be using a database (not a textfile like in the scenario I hypothetically made above) so you'll have to research how to connect to whatever source you are using.

Hope this helps.

Posted 23-Apr-13 10:50am

Kschuler

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Rajesh Vetrivel 24-Apr-13 5:20am

Thanks for your reply Kschuler
I want Without DSN Connect Mail Merge using vb.net

Regards
Rajesh V

Kschuler 24-Apr-13 9:20am

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=vb.net+mailmerge+word+without+dsn&oq=vb.net+mailmerge+word+without+dsn&gs_l=hp.3...824.9897.0.10160.45.28.10.6.6.0.206.3723.1j26j1.28.0...0.0...1c.1.11.psy-ab.AerALI63OyY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45580626,d.eWU&fp=f845baf05245cb05&biw=1152&bih=734

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Rajesh Vetrivel · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-25T00:04:00

VB

Dim objWord As New Object
objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") ' Creating a word application
objWord.application.WindowState = 0 ' set the word window in normal state (Const wdWindowStatENormal = 0)
objWord.Documents.Open(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "\WORD.doc")
objWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.OpenDataSource( _
Name:=System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "ACCESSDB.mdb", _
Connection:="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=ACCESSDB.mdb;Mode=Read;", _
SQLStatement:="select * from `TABLE_NAME`", _
SubType:=Word.WdMergeSubType.wdMergeSubTypeAccess)
objWord.ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Execute()
objWord.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() & "\WORD1.DOC")
objWord.Parent.Windows(2).Close(Word.WdSaveOptions.wdDoNotSaveChanges)
objWord.Visible = True