>@brl-smoke.ARPA (08/11/86)
I'm trying to use MailMerge to assemble letters containing multiple lines of
information extracted from multiple data files, without success.
I have two data files, one containing a list of people who are to be included
in a seminar, and the other containing a list of the people who will moderate
the seminar (actually three or four different seminar groupings, all to run
concurrently). I need to generate two sets of letters:
1. Extract a data record from list 1 to be the addressing information, and a
data record from list 2 to tell the addressee when and where the seminar
is to be, and by whom it will be moderated. (For a seminar with three
groups, this set will contain between 15 and 18 letters.)
2. Extract a data record from list 2 to be the addressing information, and
six selected records from list 1, to tell the addressed moderator the
names, etc., of the people who will be in his or her group. (For a
seminar with three groups, this set will contain three letters.)
Am I trying to do the impossible?
Thanks for any help,
Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat)
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ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPAMichael_Krause.ROCH@xerox.ARPA (08/12/86)
You NEED to buy L. David Stone's book called (something like) "Things MicroPro Never Told You About WordStar, MailMerge & StarIndex". The book is loaded with fairly well documented features that MicroPro doesn't cover in the manual and with lots of great "tricks" on how to get your hardware to do (WordStar) things you might otherwise never dream up yourself. It sells for between $15 and $20; I don't remember the exact price; and has a black cover with the title in white and green printed diagonally across it. Good Luck