Force new line within a mailmerge field?

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1

HI

Is there a way i can force a new line within the text of a maill-merge field?

I have an address, held in the database in html, and it uses
to break the line. This gets inserted in a normal mail-merge.

I was wondering what character i can replace the
with so that the field :

"Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NS

Tel: 020 7210 3000" appears as a proper address format?

Any thoughts?

Thanks - James Whittaker

2

Here is a sample code:

private void buttonInsertHtmlInMailMerge_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

// open file Doc1.doc

string filename = Application.StartupPath + "\\Doc1.doc";

Document doc = new Document(filename);

// start DocumentBuilder for the opened file

builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// add a hadler to MergeField event

doc.MailMerge.MergeField += new MergeFieldEventHandler(MailMerge_MergeField);

// load some html from file

StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(Application.StartupPath + "\\sometext.html");

string htmltext = sr.ReadToEnd();

sr.Close();

// execute mailmerge

doc.MailMerge.Execute(new string[] {"htmlAddress1"}, new string[] {htmltext});

// save resulting document with a new name

doc.Save(System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(filename) + "_modified.doc");

}

private DocumentBuilder builder;

private void MailMerge_MergeField(object sender, MergeFieldEventArgs e)

{

if(e.DocumentFieldName.StartsWith("html"))

{

builder.MoveToMergeField(e.DocumentFieldName);

builder.InsertHtml((string)e.FieldValue);

e.Text = "";

}

}

It uses MergeField event to insert html string into the fields with the name starting with 'html'. You need to adapt it slightly to do MailMerge from database.

3

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I might be being dopey but i cannot see how to create the event handler for the mailmerge event.

For example, my "doc.MailMerge.[available properties etc list here]" - does not have the mail merge event listed?

Also, do you have any sample vb.net code for adding the event handler/delegate etc?

Thanks in advance.

James

4

The code for VB.NET will look like this:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim filename As String = Application.StartupPath + "\\Doc1.doc"

Dim doc As Document = New Document(filename)

builder = New DocumentBuilder(doc)

AddHandler doc.MailMerge.MergeField, AddressOf HandleMergeField

Dim sr As StreamReader = File.OpenText(Application.StartupPath + "\InsertHtml.txt")

Dim htmltext As String = sr.ReadToEnd()

sr.Close()

Dim fields(0) As String

fields(0) = "htmlAddress1"

Dim values(0) As String

values(0) = htmltext

doc.MailMerge.Execute(fields, values)

doc.Save(System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(filename) + "_modified.doc")

End Sub

Private builder As DocumentBuilder

Private Sub HandleMergeField(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Aspose.Word.Reporting.MergeFieldEventArgs)

If (e.DocumentFieldName.StartsWith("html")) Then

builder.MoveToMergeField(e.DocumentFieldName)

builder.InsertHtml(e.FieldValue)

End If

End Sub