Re: Link Office Word form document with data from PostgreSQL

On 3/30/2015 10:18 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 3/30/2015 1:20 AM, avpro avpro wrote:
>>
>> Have you ever experienced how to populate fields from a MS Office Word
>> document with a PostgreSQL data available either in a table or view?
>>
>> I haven’t seen anything on the web; only possible with MS products, VS
>> or Access.
>>
>> Thank you for your input
>>
>
> Microsoft Office tools like Word should be able to directly access
> Postgres databases via ODBC or OLEDB with the suitable Postgres driver
> (odbc or oledb) installed on the Windows system, and configured to
> access the Postgres database.   I've done this in the past with Excel,
> no reason it wouldn't work in Word.
>
>
>

Agreed.  I too have use PG odbc to link with excel.  If it works in
excel it should work in word.

-Andy