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

Sun Aug 24 22:12:56 EST 2008

Now they just have to come up with decent Edu licencing - not the
$100/seat at present.

Cheers

Geoff

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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