Mail Merge Wizard's "Other" Word Processor File Format

ID: Q114963

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version 2.6
Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.6

SUMMARY

The 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 INFORMATION

The 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,SALESMAN

The 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 KBCategory: kbtool kbinterop kbprg KBSubcategory: FxtoolWizother