[geeks] What happened to everybody?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Jul 24 14:37:54 CDT 2002


On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:32:51PM -0600, Dave Kimmel wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, James Rice wrote:
> 
> > Is it my imagination or is everyone quiet today?
> 
> I'm experiencing the wonderful pleasure of finding and parsing Word
> documents in Visual Basic and shoving the results into a database for
> further cleanup.
> 
> I'm enjoying the challenge.  It keeps me out of trouble.

I had run into a problem that Words Mail Merge feature wouldn't
handle, so I went and tried to write my own.  Man that was such a
phenominal pain.  I ended up giving up and telling the person it
couldn't be done unless they wanted to switch to a more sensible word
processor. 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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