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« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2007, 10:01:28 PM »

Quote from: jameswilson on October 10, 2007, 09:51:29 PM

I would expect it to have manual mail merge but automation is when you auto genertae letters from within an application,reports etc. Its not just word, its excel, pp etc. All ms apps can be automated

thats all these third party systems ( winsims,alarmmaster etc )are anyway is`nt it - a reclothed version of excel or access ?

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« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2007, 10:09:50 PM »

Quote from: Jeff on October 10, 2007, 08:38:02 PM

Are you absoloutly sure as i think im on word 2003 and i have a print to PDF button.

Jeff

Word 2007 has free a download PDF writer, for 2003 its one of the writers Lurch mentioned.

For me with MS office 2003 the best option ATM to enable me to write PDFs seems to be to use OpenOffice writer to convert Word docs.

Quote from: jameswilson on October 10, 2007, 09:51:29 PM

I would expect it to have manual mail merge but automation is when you auto genertae letters from within an application,reports etc. Its not just word, its excel, pp etc. All ms apps can be automated

Do you mean BASE cant do reports in a letter format?

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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2007, 10:10:53 PM »

Quote from: jameswilson on October 10, 2007, 09:51:29 PM

I would expect it to have manual mail merge but automation is when you auto genertae letters from within an application,reports etc. Its not just word, its excel, pp etc. All ms apps can be automated

don't need any thing other than mail merge & AM.......

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« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2007, 10:19:09 PM »

Quote from: RICHL on October 10, 2007, 10:09:50 PM

For me with MS office 2003 the best option ATM to enable me to write PDFs seems to be to use OpenOffice writer to convert Word docs.

CutePDF is the easiest way to do PDF's if you haven't already got OOo anyway IMO. Install and it installs a PDF printer. Write a document, click print and select the PDF printer, type the name of the PDF in the box that pops up and that's it.

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« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2007, 10:43:11 PM »

right im not saying that OOo cant do Mail merge etc its very caperble. It is actually capable of automation to, but being part of sun its java based (the automation) and i know naff all java, where as most ms apps use vba for their automation and suprisingly i know a bit about vb and c#. Thats what i was saying

But base is not as powerful as access, nor is the spreadsheet app, but its unlikly you will need that power. For me as i am MS is perfect but i run office 2003 and will not be upgrading to 2007. But if it was just me starting up etc on me own then id go with OOo

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« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2007, 10:48:00 PM »

Quote from: jameswilson on October 10, 2007, 10:43:11 PM

i run office 2003 and will not be upgrading to 2007

can not find feck all in 2007....

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« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2007, 10:50:13 PM »

Quote from: Lurch on October 10, 2007, 10:19:09 PM

Right-o

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« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2007, 10:57:15 PM »

I should add that it's free, there is a slightly easier way but that costs, I don't like paying for stuff (unless it's tools, I like buying tools) so I stick to the free apps.

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« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2007, 04:14:11 PM »

for me it is most important to be a nonMS software.

our md had a problem with msoffice - cured by uninstalling it and downloading OOo.. no moan ever since.

same happened to iexplorer. next to happen is windows --> etch

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« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2007, 06:51:14 PM »

Quote from: Mr Happy on October 10, 2007, 10:48:00 PM

can not find mess all in 2007....

It took forever to find print in word 07. we are back with word 03

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