Word- boilerplate text merging?

I searched this group, but still can't find relevant answers.
Is there an easy way to build a Word document based on a template where
I can pick which boilerplate text or images to insert in the given
fields/spots? I found an add-in to Word from ActiveDocs that is very
nice but very pricey. It also seems to do more than I need. I thought
that maybe a VBA script could handle the steps. All I need is a
function that pops a dialog box where I can on the fly select the right
bits of text from a database or maybe txt files on the hard drive. Is
there an existing script that will do it, or alternatively a less
expensive program than ActiveDocs?
TIA

Martin
Wed Mar 15 22:20:05 CST 2006


<jan@thuneau.com> wrote in message
news:1142456980.165497.59460@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> I searched this group, but still can't find relevant answers.
> Is there an easy way to build a Word document based on a template where
> I can pick which boilerplate text or images to insert in the given
> fields/spots? I found an add-in to Word from ActiveDocs that is very
> nice but very pricey. It also seems to do more than I need. I thought
> that maybe a VBA script could handle the steps. All I need is a
> function that pops a dialog box where I can on the fly select the right
> bits of text from a database or maybe txt files on the hard drive. Is
> there an existing script that will do it, or alternatively a less
> expensive program than ActiveDocs?
> TIA

I'm not sure if this is exatcly what you are after but it does generate some
very nice word docs - maybe you could use it to start with -
http://sydi.sourceforge.net/