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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Mark is right .. there are better ways than how Word handles mail merging.
One application I know of works by just dragging a field out of the database
and dropping it onto the desired location in a word processor (*taps
forehead*) is this sensible for noobs or what?

FileMaker is starting to look good, most of you would be suprised how many
schools use it in the States :-)

Regards Roland

2008/8/22 Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>

> 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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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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