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Word 2003 mailmerge VBA automation
However we would also like to generate the mailmerge as emails; but although the merge works, Word pops up an error message "Word cannot merge documents that can be distributed by mail or fax without a valid mail address". Word is open at that point, and if I open the Mailmerge wizard, I find the email Subject line, and the field to use for the email address, is NOT populated although I have set these in code.
How this works:
1. My webpage opens a .hta document in a new window
2. The hta document has a script that runs that creates an instance of Word and automates it, setting the mailmerge datasource AND the email subject and address field, then executes the merge.
As above, this works fine for letters. What's very odd is that if I take the VBA code out of the .hta document, and make it into a .VBS script, or paste it into an app such as Excel's VBA editor, it works perfectly and the emails get sent. Only when running as an HTA does the script fail to set the email address field. Full script follows:
{html}
{script language="vbscript"}
dim wd
dim doc
dim fname
fname="[path and filename of merge document]"
on error resume next
set wd=CreateObject("Word.Application")
if err.number then
msgbox err.Description,,"Couldn't open Word"
else
wd.visible=true
Set doc = wd.Documents.Open(fname)
If Err.Number Then
MsgBox Err.Description, , "Couldn't open Document"
Else
doc.MailMerge.OpenDataSource "[datasourcename].odc", , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 0
If Err.Number Then
MsgBox Err.Description, , "Couldn't open merge data"
Else
doc.MailMerge.MailSubject="This is a test subject"
doc.MailMerge.MailFormat = 1 'HTML
doc.Mailmerge.MailAddressFieldName = "Contact_Work_Email"
doc.MailMerge.MainDocumentType = 4 '' wdEmail
doc.MailMerge.Destination = 2 'wdSendToEmail
doc.MailMerge.Execute true
If Err.Number Then
MsgBox Err.Description, , "Couldn't execute merge"
Else
doc.Close False
End If
End If
End If
End if
window.close
{/script}
{/html}
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