Re: Mail merge question.

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 09/16/2002 11:50:04

You can insert this field in the paragraph of some special style:

paragraphs can have colored background, or you can draw it yourself

(OnDrawParaBack event)

> Well, if possible, what I am looking for is something like this:

> Text Text Text

> <----------------------------- Special MM

> Field ---------------------------->

> Continue text...

> I would like the "Special MM Field" to not allow anything on the same line

> as it, and to paint the style background all the way across and basically

> act like a horizontal line does. I didn't know if there was a quick and

> easy way to get this behavior. Thanks for the reply!

> Ryan McGinty

> OCERIS, Inc.

> "Sergey Tkachenko" <[email protected]> wrote in message

> > You can place the field on a separate line...

> > I do not understand what do you mean - "draw itself all the way across

the

> > RichViewEdit"?

> >

> > > I have looked at the mail merge demo to add some mail merge

> functionality

> > to

> > > my app, but there is one thing I want to do that I am not quite sure

> > about.

> > > I would like to insert a "mail merge field", basically a tagged block

> > > text just like in the MM demo, but I would like it to take up an

entire

> > > line. This is so that a chuck of text can be inserted (the body of a

> > > letter), so I don't want anything else on the line of this item. It

> would

> > > also be nice if it would draw itself all the way across the

> RichViewEdit.

> > > Is this possible, and if so, how? Thanks for the help in advance!

> >