[Year 12 IT Apps] Any ideas please

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Mark is right .. this is something that Filemaker can do in a snap and
is certainly well worth considering if your friend is heading this
way. We sometimes forget that FireMaker is bigger in the USA education
system than here, something I noticed during the NECC2008 study tour.

I did have some fun a couple of years ago experimenting with Excel and
Outlook 2003 until I messed up over a less than obvious slip up and
globally goofed with a silly message that I had to retract all around
the place wearing a very red face. I am older, wiser and more cautious
.. leaving mail merging for printouts.

Regards Roland

2009/4/20 Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>:
> This, I feel, is a good case of Just Don't Do It.  I'd use a database
> instead of a spreadsheet - e.g. Filemaker can do customised mass emails very
> easily.
>
> Excel and merge have been complete pains - especially when trying to format
> the output and do conditional merges.
>
>
> Said, Joseph J wrote:
>>
>> Dear List
>>  I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how to solve a problem for
>> a friend of mine.  He needs to mail merge a large number of employees in his
>> workplace and then send out individual emails with the data from the mail
>> merge. Does anyone know of a way to mailmerge into a email and then to be
>> able to hit send once which will then send out individual emails with each
>> persons details on each email.  The mail merge part is standard, but I am
>> not sure of getting it into an email (apart from attaching the word files to
>> each seperate email and sending them individually, which is a problem when
>> you have 500 employees)
>>   thanks in advance for any suggestions
>>  Joe Said
>>  Rosehill Secondary College
>> ICT Teacher Sapphire street, Niddrie, 3042
>> Ph: 9337 2488
>> Email: said.joseph.j at edumail.vic.gov.au
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