Advanced PowerBuilder

Running the Example

Run the application and click on the 'Copy Graph & Mail Merge in MS-Word' CommandButton. Note that you don't have to have Word running in the background for this.

You'll see data flash in the DataWindow control and then the graph appears. Word opens in the background and you'll see data coming in, windows being opened and closed, as the macro does its stuff.

You can see the final result by opening the c:\workdir\mail-out.doc document.

You can see the first record and the graph inserted in the correct place. If you scroll down the document, you'll see that the next page contains data for the second record.

Our example, though complex to set up, was fairly easy to execute. As we said before, you could very easily alter the code to give more functionality.

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