Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbSc-00075Y-MN for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:18:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbSc-0001eG-4v for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:18:42 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbSa-0001e9-NH for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:18:40 +0000 Received: from hogranch.com ([75.101.82.47]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbSX-0007pt-Ib for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:18:38 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (porker [192.168.0.2]) by hogranch.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id t2UFISH01466 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:18:29 -0700 Message-ID: <5519693F.2060404@hogranch.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:18:23 -0700 From: John R Pierce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Link Office Word form document with data from PostgreSQL References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-HawgScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-HawgScanner: Found to be clean X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-general Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org On 3/30/2015 1:20 AM, avpro avpro wrote: > > Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word > document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view? > > I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS > or Access. > > Thank you for your input > Microsoft Office tools like Word should be able to directly access Postgres databases via ODBC or OLEDB with the suitable Postgres driver (odbc or oledb) installed on the Windows system, and configured to access the Postgres database. I've done this in the past with Excel, no reason it wouldn't work in Word. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general