Mail Merge Wizard's "Other" Word Processor File FormatLast reviewed: June 27, 1995Article ID: Q114963 |
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SUMMARYThe Mail Merge Wizard prompts you to select the type of word processor that will use the mail merge data document. If you select Other, FoxPro creates a delimited ASCII text file.
MORE INFORMATIONThe first row of the file consists of the names of the fields, delimited by commas. The subsequent rows contain the table's data, delimited by tabs. In addition, character fields use double quotation marks as text qualifiers. For example, using the INVOICES.DBF table (located in FoxPro's TUTORIAL subdirectory) for the mail merge creates a file whose first row contains the following:
INO,CNO,IDATE,ITOTAL,SALESMANThe next row contains the following data:
1054(tab)"C8934"(tab)19900507(tab)1100.24(tab)"647"NOTE: The character string "(tab)" (without the quotation marks) in the example above represents the actual tab character. When the wizard prompts you to save this file, the default name supplied is MMRGDATA.TXT. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q113004 TITLE : File Formats Created by Mail Merge Wizard |
Additional reference words: FoxDos FoxWin 2.60
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