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Currently, if the replacement-tags span multiple formats, replacement is simply not done, because we look at a run at a time. There are multiple options to handle this better:

• detect incorrectly formatted tags and fail gereation
• detect an unclosed tag and include text from the next run in this case

There is a fork where an implementation for .doc via HWPFWorkbook is implemented at https://github.com/SunnyTam/poi-mail-merge

We could incorporate this here by deciding which one to use based on the file-extension.

There is a fork which implements writing the result to separate files at https://github.com/jedwards36/poi-mail-merge, we could incorporate this in the main version via a commandline option.

Hi Dominik,

Is there any way to set the page size for the document? Because, the generated document has the merged documents mixed up with the previous one. I have attached the screenshot for this.

Thanks,
Vamshi

Hi guys, awesome work - very useful tool.

The one issue I have is that I am merging dates which are in Australian format (i.e. dd/mm/YYYY) from my .xlsx spreadsheet and they are somehow being transformed to US format (i.e. mm/dd/YYYY) in the 'filled' .docx. I could care less about the YYYY vs. YY output, but the inversed day/month characters are a bit of an issue!

Any ideas how I could fix this? I have ensured that both input and output merge fields (in Excel/Word) are formatted to dd/mm/YYYY and that my system (Debian 9) is set to English AU keyboard/time/geo options but I ran out of idea there.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Could you please provide example documents to work with?

Thanks,
Vamshi