Howdy,
For more years than I care to tell, I composed letters in MS
Word in the following way:
Starting in Paradox, I would move to the recipient's record,
and click a button that dumped the appropriate address
information, and the recipient's first name to a file called
LET.
Then, I launched Word, opened a new doc, and ran a macro
that entered today's date, and inserted the contents of LET
so that the doc looked like this:
April 9, 2008
Joe Blow
123 His Street
Histown, NH 12345
Dear Joey,
Next, I would type in the text of the letter.
To print the envelope, I just clicked the envelope icon in
Word, and it entered the appropriate text, and printed.
Well, it did with my old printer (a LaserJet 2500), but that
printer died, and I replaced it with a LaserJet 3600n.
With the new printer, when I do what I have described above,
on clicking the envelope icon, nothing is entered.
If I select the address text and then click the envelope
icon, the appropriate address text is entered, and so is the
"Dear Joey" (even though is was not selected.) After
deleting the "Dear Joey" in the envelope composition dialog,
it looks fine in the Preview, but when I print, the address
text prints on the envelope as a Return Address.
And finally, if, (instead of taking the address from Paradox
as I have described) I simply type in an address, the
envelope prints properly.
It is because of that last that I am posting here at all. It
is as if Paradox is adding something (invisible) to the file
that makes Word choke (though, as I mentioned, this all
worked fine with the former printer.)
With apology for the long description, might you have any
thoughts at all about what might be happening here?
Sincere thanks,
--
Kenneth
If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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