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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Filemaker & Mailmerge
- Message-ID: <7133@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 1992 16:48:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.152521.19490@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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- In article <1992Aug17.152521.19490@tc.cornell.edu> sjb@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU
- (Stephen J. Bradshaw) writes:
- >I am interested in using Filemaker Pro to handle a database of names
- >and addresses. Could someone indicate if the current or future versions
- >of Filemaker can be used in conjunction with a * SEPARATE * word
- >processing package for mail merges. I appreciate that it is possible to
- >compose letters from within Filemaker but I am more interested in using
- >a dedicated word processor. Has anyone had any success with any specific
- >word processors ?
-
- I send out several hundred announcements a month with addresses from a
- FileMaker Pro database. I have FileMaker output a tab-delimited text file with
- the data I want, then I switch to FullWrite to print the announcements. I just
- click the "Merge with database file" check box in the Print dialog and choose
- the tab-delimited text file with the data.
-
- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-
- "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
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