It’s too long since I did this sort of thing. And the program is no longer available. Can I make VB do this for me, within MS Word for Windows. (Office 2000 on w2kp) Roughly speaking, I’m seeking to extract data from a data source, more or less like the following: Bracketed words signify <field name> IF <keyword> contains (the word) 'redundant' [true response] skip to next record (and repeat that test [for every record!]) Should that above conditional test return a [false response] then, extract the data from the record, thus: Insert <name1> data in bold, followed by a tab, then move to the next field. IF <name2> contains data, insert that data, followed by a comma and a space, ELSE IF <name2> contains no data, skip to next field. . . . . . . . . . If <home_tel> contains data, insert the text string "Home Tel:" in bold, then the field data, followed by a comma and a space, ELSE IF <home_tel> contains no data, skip to next field. On and on and on . . . . till the end-of-record, [where two carriage returns are inserted] then move to the next record until end of file. (Ye olde WHILE WEND instruction?) The desired outcome of this exercise is a WP file printed on A5, (or two columns on A4 landscape) for inclusion in a small diary/ring-binder. The data source has 26-30 fields per record and less than 1k records. Perry <sighs>
