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I've been contacted by a company that is looking for the following from me: "What we are looking for is automation of our office. We have started to work in Access to get some automation of document production in place. However, we have not done much beyond the use of merge. But because most of our documents are populated with the same types of basic information, we were thinking that the process can be automated much more extensively. There are five basic programs that we are using Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, pdf (not certain if that is a program exactly). There is a government filing system we would like to be able to download into- but that may be a step too far. We have incoming documents that at the present time we cut information from and past this information into our documents. The cut and paste process is time consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors." Would anyone make a suggestion on what programming language would be best/easiest to complete this task in? Namely, I'm looking for a language that can create these different types of documents. Any suggestions? Thank you very much!
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I've been contacted by a company that is looking for the following from me: "What we are looking for is automation of our office. We have started to work in Access to get some automation of document production in place. However, we have not done much beyond the use of merge. But because most of our documents are populated with the same types of basic information, we were thinking that the process can be automated much more extensively. There are five basic programs that we are using Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, pdf (not certain if that is a program exactly). There is a government filing system we would like to be able to download into- but that may be a step too far. We have incoming documents that at the present time we cut information from and past this information into our documents. The cut and paste process is time consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors." Would anyone make a suggestion on what programming language would be best/easiest to complete this task in? Namely, I'm looking for a language that can create these different types of documents. Any suggestions? Thank you very much!
Python might be worth looking into. It is able to interact with the Office apps. mentioned, as well as pdf. But I've no idea what limitations it may have.
Kevin
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I've been contacted by a company that is looking for the following from me: "What we are looking for is automation of our office. We have started to work in Access to get some automation of document production in place. However, we have not done much beyond the use of merge. But because most of our documents are populated with the same types of basic information, we were thinking that the process can be automated much more extensively. There are five basic programs that we are using Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, pdf (not certain if that is a program exactly). There is a government filing system we would like to be able to download into- but that may be a step too far. We have incoming documents that at the present time we cut information from and past this information into our documents. The cut and paste process is time consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors." Would anyone make a suggestion on what programming language would be best/easiest to complete this task in? Namely, I'm looking for a language that can create these different types of documents. Any suggestions? Thank you very much!
I would use C#, and the Primary Interop Assemblies[^]. :)
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I've been contacted by a company that is looking for the following from me: "What we are looking for is automation of our office. We have started to work in Access to get some automation of document production in place. However, we have not done much beyond the use of merge. But because most of our documents are populated with the same types of basic information, we were thinking that the process can be automated much more extensively. There are five basic programs that we are using Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, pdf (not certain if that is a program exactly). There is a government filing system we would like to be able to download into- but that may be a step too far. We have incoming documents that at the present time we cut information from and past this information into our documents. The cut and paste process is time consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors." Would anyone make a suggestion on what programming language would be best/easiest to complete this task in? Namely, I'm looking for a language that can create these different types of documents. Any suggestions? Thank you very much!