Fill MS Word Document Template from ABAP

Hello friends.
I have a problem here, i wonder if you can help me. Here's my scenario...
I have a MS Word template Document, like say a letter, with bookmarks on it. These bookmarks are the actual fields to be filled.
What i would like to do is have an ABAP program that reads data from SAP and opens the template and fills the bookmarks with the information retrieved. Basicallyis one thing like we do with Mail Merge in MS Word.
Does anyone have any idea of how to make this?
Thank you
Ricardo Monteiro

Try this:
method insert_text_at_bookmark.
*--- check if bookmark exists
    get property of gs_actdoc 'Bookmarks' = gs_bookmarks.
    call method of gs_bookmarks 'Exists'
      exporting
        #1 = '<<your_bookmark_name>>'.
    if sy-subrc = 0.
*--- getting handle for bookmarks
      get property of gs_actdoc 'Bookmarks' = gs_bookmarks
        exporting
          #1 = '<<your_bookmark_name>>'.
*--- getting handle for range of bookmark
      get property of gs_bookmarks 'Range' = gs_range.
*--- insert text at bookmark
      call method of gs_range 'InsertAfter'
        exporting
          #1 = '<<your_text_at_bookmark>>'.
endmethod.
All you have to give to the method is the name of the bookmark in MS word and the text you want to print. I specially take a internal table of two fields (name and value) and fill it in another method and pass it to this method.
Harry

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