On 2/8/01 9:10 AM, "Word.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any chance of getting AppleWorks to do a decent email merge? Almost
> anything would be better than jumping through the current hoops in Office
> 2001's mail merge (which doesn't include any of the Custom Fields and
> insanely makes no use of Categories). I can't believe they even tested
> that feature with real-world users. I would love to be able to email
> "Family" category with Dear <<FirstName>>, from within Entourage. Or better
> yet, "New customers" category, Dear <<BusinessName>>, here is your password:
> <<CustomName>>.
>
> The closest thing I have providing this functionality is OutBox, an ald but
> essential FileMaker 3.0 program that was discontinued back in 1997 by
> SpinFree. It's my customer database, used daily, but is getting kind of
> long in the tooth.
>
> Anybody know of a modern PIM-CustomerDatabase-CustomEmail program in case
> the up-and-coming Service Pack doesn't address the E'rage email merge
> debacle?
Dave,
Why don't you get my Office for Office script suite which does all you want,
and more: sorting by categories, or birthdays or almost anything you want,
and doing envelopes, form letters, and mailing labels in Word on any number
of selected contacts. It's free, and 4015 people have downloaded it so far
from
AppleScript Central
<http://www.applescriptcentral.com/>
And if it doesn't do enough for you, try George Clark's eQuery, $10
shareware, from the same location. (I'm beginning to wish I had taken
George's offer to go in with him in the shareware business, but then I
suppose I would have got far fewer downloads).
Have you really missed seeing all our announcements? If you want to do a
proper mail merge, you don't have to wait for some non-existent app to make
an appearance. You can do it now.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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