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

[David Dawson]

This is amusing - honestly!
What about PageMaker 3 - capable of DTP for magazine or books
*hundreds* of pages long - with inline graphics, multiple column widths
and lengths on the same page - kerning and colour assignments with
printer marks and fractions of a point size - hundreds of fonts of
course - all on a 33MHz 386 with 4MB of RAM - that is correct MB and MHz
- not GB!!  
All this in Win 3.1 in 1992 :)

David Dawson
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>>> sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au 08/23/08 7:06 pm >>>
Word has never caught up with WP 5.1 for DOS never, ever! View codes,
conditional merges, automatic numbering of table cells to create
catalogue tickets, the list goes on ... and don't get me started on
DataPerfect 2.6 for DOS - Flemaker on steroids!

Laurie

Just recently, on Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 08:09:40AM +1000  in fact, Mark
Kelly mentioned:
> 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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