Hi Paul

thanks for your support!
In my setup, the script that does the comparison also populates/creates the report. you can visualize it like a macro running in one word document(test script) will be creating/populating another word document (test report).

My difficulties with mail merge is that it needs the data source upfront and creates multiple copies of the template (which is its capability) but i need the other way around. multiple data has to be inserted into the same document at defined places many times over.

thanks
k.kannan