Technical Details

OnMerge Images add-in for Microsoft Word links image files into Word documents. The add-in does not disturb normal Word operation. Linked image files can be on your computer’s hard disk or local network, and are linked into the document by name. Each file’s name can contain one or more mail merge fields from a data source, meaning that each merged page or record can be linked to a different image (depending on the data source).

File linking is accomplished using a single user-friendly popup dialog which lets you split each image file’s name and folder into 6 parts. Each part of the name can be entered directly, or can be taken from selected data source fields. All parts are automatically looked up from the data source and combined into a single image file name when merging each page or record. While you’re setting up a file links, OnMerge Images’ popup dialog allows you to automatically preview the image that any page or record will be linked to.

OnMerge Images automatically resizes images after merging (enlarge or shrink), solving Word’s well-known problem with incorrectly-sized images after merging. Automatic resizing is usually done to fit inside a given box without distorting the aspect ratio, but can be optionally done to an exact size.

Data-source lookups for some pages or records may result in file names that link to image files that don’t exist. OnMerge Images lets you choose what to do if or when that happens, just like high-end variable-data software: use a default “stand-in” image; leave the space blank; make the image invisible by making it blank and very tiny; skip the page or data-source record entirely; or pop up an error message during the merge.

Image files supported: JPEG (jpg, jpeg, jpe, jfif), gif, png, TIFF (tif, tiff), emf, wmf, bmp, Mac PICT (pic, pict)

Data sources supported: Microsoft Excel. All ODBC-compliant databases (that's just about all databases including Access, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)

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