On 11/14/00 16:31, Allen Watson wrote:
> Is what you are thinking of, perhaps, some kind of AppleScript that would
> let you export contact information, selected by category (one or more), to a
> tab-delimited text file? I imagine that such a file would make fine input to
> a data merge in Word, although I have yet to try that out. That might be
> something someone like Paul or me might be interested in writing.
Omar Shahine has written a script that does something similar to this for
labels. At least, it does the "write to a text file" part, and imports the
text file into Word as a Data Merge data source document. He did indicate
the other day that he may being releasing it in the near future.
However, any such solution, or even my envelope-printing script, all suffer
from the same limitation: the user has little or no control over which
specific fields of the contact to export/use. What's really needed is a
dialog for the user to select the desired fields, and assign a name for each
field as it will be used in the Data Merge, as well as the criteria for
which contacts to select.
It can all be done with Entourage and Word, making use of a UserForm in Word
for the selection process. Use a text file to pass the available fields to
Word, then another (or the same) text file to pass the results back to
Entourage. Entourage would then extract the specified info, create the text
file to be used as the data source, then Word would create the final data
source document from that text file.
Sounds like it could be fun...I'll work on it in my spare time.
George
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