The data.dot files might be an in house thing honestly. Essentially we are calling our database to bring in certain values into the vb code, and from there the data is being moved into the "data.dot" file, which then moves the data into the template.

The data.dot file has a really weird format, where the variables being plugged into the template go vertically instead of horizontally. Not sure if this is a general standard, or if my company created this.

We actually have an in-house application that allows users to generate letters to be sent out. So that is the basis of the vb code.

Hope that helps clear things up.