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# Technical Summary

## Working with other Tools

The other tools that the Run Microsoft Word (Merge) tool interacts directly with, whether by exposing information to it or consuming information from it, are listed below.

### Consuming from Other Tools

Icon | Tool Name | Tool Category
--- | --- | ---
| Database Query (ODBC) | Input and Data Connectors
| Database Query (OLEDB) | Input and Data Connectors
| Import Flat File | Input
| Convert XML to Recordset | Format
| Filter Data | General

### Objects Consumed

Objects that the Run Microsoft Word (Merge) Step consumes that are exposed by other Steps are listed below.

|  | Recordset — Information structured into columns and rows

|  | Variables (Text) — Textual data is extracted from selected Variables

### Exposing to Other Tools

Icon | Tool Name | Tool Category
--- | --- | ---
| Print Document | Output
| Save File | Output
| Send Email (SMTP) | Output
| Send Text Message | Output
| Transfer File (FTP) | Output
| Call COM Object | Execute
| Run External Program | Execute

### Objects Exposed

Objects that the Run Microsoft Word (Merge) Step exposes that can be utilised by other Steps are listed below.

|  | Documents — One or multiple Word, XML, HTML, RTF or plain text documents

|  | Mailmerge — Displays the data provided by the original merge document data source.

|  | RecordSource — Displays the data provided by the previous Step in the Task.

|  | FormatData, XMLData, RTFData, HTMLData, and TextData — For completeness, these nodes display the Step output data that will be provided for use to the next Step in the Task; depending on the document output type selected.

|  | Step Properties — A number of properties for the Step are exposed in the Environment tab of the Task Browser dialog box

## Dependencies

The products, technologies, protocols or systems that are required for the Run Microsoft Word (Merge) Step to work are listed below.

|  | MS Word — Microsoft Word version '97 onwards.

## Global Configuration

The Run Microsoft Word (Merge) tool does not require any global configuration before being used in a task.

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