halam@ub.d.umn.edu (Haseen I. Alam) (06/12/91)
Hi there,
Here is an interesting problem involving file merge. A friend of mine
is typing a paper in French and would then translate it to English.
After this she wants to combine the two files so that each line of
French (in italics or some other style) will be followed by the
corresponding translated English line, which would be in a different
style. Sounds exciting!!
So I came up with the idea of creating both files separately then
saving them as text with linefeeds. Next opening them again and change
their Fonts/type styles. Now I need to write a small merge file that
can perform the following:
x = 1
while not eof(French_file)
get line x of French_file
get line x of English_file
x = x + 1
end while
NOW MY QUESTION IS, is it possible to read in one line at a time using
the mail merge option in MS Word 4.0d in a loop till end of file? If
you can provide me with an example merge file that will be really
helpful. Otherwise, you can refer me to the manual or other utility
as well.
Please e-mail your reply, since the news server here is playing games
with us these days. Thanks.
Haseen.
halam@ub.d.umn.edu
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