I see here that Microsoft publisher can produce catalog pages from data supplied from an ODBC connection.
 
has anyone ever tried that with DBA ?
 
also can you use ODBC over a VPN ?
 
would I connect right to DBA or should I go thru an access database 1st for the dba data ?
 
I think I would need to go thru access 1st to gather the data from different tables,   then feed that to publisher to generate the catalog.