geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu (06/14/91)
My fiancee has a lot of WP 5.1 secondary files containing addresses which she would like to use in conjuction with a database program. She interested in doing sorting and filtering, and being able to generate labels. It seems like a pretty common need, so I thought someone out there may have some recommendations. I realize that WordPerfect has some sorting capabilities, but I am not sure they are sufficient and it seems like a good database program might be the best approach. -- ******************************************************* Geoff Ghose School of Optometry 360 Minor Hall Univ. of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 642-6440 Fax: (415) 642-3323 NeXT Mail: geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun13.221920.10985@agate.berkeley.edu> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes: > >My fiancee has a lot of WP 5.1 secondary files containing addresses which she >would like to use in conjuction with a database program. She interested in >doing sorting and filtering, and being able to generate labels. It seems like >a pretty common need, so I thought someone out there may have some >recommendations. The Wordperfect Company has a database called Dataperfect. It's "interesting" in that it has some automatic functions built in that take quite a bit of work to do in other programs (like case-independent lookups on any indexed or linked fields, and text-type fields that word wrap in a screen window), but you only have programming access within a report. It should work pretty well for address lists. You still have to do a report to generate the merge list, but WP merge is a built-in report type, or you can roll your own by putting the ^R and ^E into your own report formats. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us