Mail merge in Word document a very powerful function for users to write and send personalized letters or e-mails to many different people at the same time. This article will demonstrate how to create a mail merge template and then merge the text value into the template with the help of Free Spire.Doc for Java.
Import Jar Dependency (2 methods)
● Download the Free Spire.Doc for Java and unzip it, then add the Spire.Doc.jar file to your Java application as dependency.
● Directly add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.
<repositories> <repository> <id>com.e-iceblue</id> <name>e-iceblue</name> <url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId> <artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId> <version>3.9.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> Sample Code
import com.spire.doc.*; import com.spire.doc.documents.Paragraph; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class MailMerge { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String output = "mailMerge.docx"; //Create a Document instance Document document = new Document(); //Add a section Section section = document.addSection(); //Add 3 paragraphs to the section Paragraph para = section.addParagraph(); Paragraph para2 = section.addParagraph(); Paragraph para3 = section.addParagraph(); //Add mail merge templates to each paragraph para.setText("Contact Name: "); para.appendField("Contact Name", FieldType.Field_Merge_Field); para2.setText("Phone: "); para2.appendField("Phone", FieldType.Field_Merge_Field); para3.setText("Date: "); para3.appendField("Date", FieldType.Field_Merge_Field); //Set the value for the mail merge template by the field name Date currentTime = new Date(); SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime); String[] filedNames = new String[]{"Contact Name", "Phone", "Date"}; String[] filedValues = new String[]{"Robert Chan", "+1 (69) 123456", dateString}; //Merge the specified value into template document.getMailMerge().execute(filedNames, filedValues); //save the document to file document.saveToFile(output, FileFormat.Docx); } } A snapshot of the result document
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