[Year 12 IT Apps] OT- Mail merge and word

[Kent Beveridge]

Been a while since I've even needed to mail merge stuff! 
Hey mark..the mail man(actually, she's female!) is at your door with a merge request? What are you going to do?  lololol...
KB.
 
Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
 
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
Sent: Sat 8/23/2008 8:09 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT- Mail merge and word



Dammit - I was trying to be subtle  ;-)

Hutchison, Geoffrey G wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I take it you don't like Word's Mail merge then?!!
>
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
> Sent: Friday, 22 August 2008 9:09 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT- Mail merge and word
>
> The shortest useful document is one I wrote which, in its entirety is:
>
> Don't.
>
> Word's mail merge has not improved in 20 years.  Wordperfect 5 trounced
> it soundly in 1981, and Microsoft has made NO effort to improve its
> execrable merge technology since then.
>
> It is a mad, sick, slavering dog with mailmerge rabies to be shot on
> first sight.
>
> Run, screaming, at the first sight of Word mail merge. Use Filemaker and
>
> its merge codes instead.
>
> The best I can offer is:
> http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/vceit/howto/merge/index.htm
> but that's like getting a junkie onto using clean needles instead of
> kicking the powder.
>
> This is an official announcement.  You have been warned. Just say NO to
> word mail Merge.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mark
>
> Claudia Graham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 
>>
>> Sorry for the OT request, but thought I'd rather post here then
> reinvent
>> the wheel!
>>
>> 
>>
>> Does anyone have a short instruction sheet on mail merge with excel in
>> Office 07?
>>
>> 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Claudia
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
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