Hi, Thanks for your friendly responses to my mail with the subject 'First Time Framer'.
The reassurances that I have received from list members have been very comforting. The language of frame maker is still alien to me, so I have not been able to really appreciate the depth of insight that some comments carry. What isn't obscured is the fact that people are passionate about this software because it is empowering in them in their work. Where people have suggested downloading addins in response to my 'mailmerge' query (thank you Mike Whickham and Keith Smyth) I have followed their advice with blind faith. The downloads are sitting on my desktop, albeit uninstalled. I'm waiting until I have bought the upgrade to 7.2 or 8 before I venture down the mailmerge path. Unimerge is a possibile solution too, as is Eric L. Dunn's script, which I will contact him about. As I'm not hands-on with FM, I haven't yet encountered the same problems that people's' helpful hints and tips purport to help me avoid (thaks Ann Zdunczyk). I have printed these emails for later reference when no doubt they will save me a great deal of time and frustration.