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From: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Postgres to MS-Word? (Kind of off topic)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:16:02 -0500
Message-ID: <36DDA692.A6374DA6@insightdist.com> (raw)
References: <4.1.19990303155928.0097d280@mail.venux.net>



Matthew Hagerty wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Sorry, maybe a little off topic, but seems like an interface issue to me. :)
>
> My client has a database of customers.  My client also wants to be able to
> pull up a record on a client and sent a letter to that client.  The letter
> would be canned except for the header and greeting.  Does anyone know of a
> way to get field info into a word.doc file and print it from the same UN*X
> server running PostgreSQL?  Any one ever do something like this?
>

I think you can put odbc queries into word documents.  I'm not sure of the exact
details, but it seems like it would work.

Byron





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