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

[Laurie Savage]

We're not talking about OpenOffice, are we Roland <wink>. I use its merge
all the time, I find it especially useful for working with my mySQL backend.
Merge is as simple as F4, drag and drop . but WordPerfect is still streets
ahead if you need to build some logic into the process e.g. a Doctor needs
to use different stationary or layouts depending on the pathologist being
faxed.

 

Laurie

 

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Sunday, 24 August 2008 10:01 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] OT- Mail merge and word

 

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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