The two principal files one deals with in ebase are names and payments. If you do a find in one and then navagate to the other, you lose the found set. However on the main payments screen there is a button [To Names] which makes a list of all the record numbers of members in the found set, navigates to the names file and does a new find for those record numbers. This means, for instance, that although you may have multiple payments for any particular individual in the payment found set, when you get to the names file you will only have one for each member.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jennifer Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:12 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > I don't understand how that happens, ebase lets me keep the found set > whether I am in Home, Output or any of the tabs, does anyone else know why > this happens to him? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DelCarlo Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:48 PM > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > Jennifer, > > > > I have your email response to my request before me. I am encountering a > > glitch at the start: > > > > --I perform a query to form a found set consisting of all individual > donors > > who have contributed $250 or more between November 1, 2000 and July 31, > > 2001. > > > > --In order to access the "Output" tab I must return to "Home", at which > > point the found set is lost. I want to do the merge with this specific > > found set, not the general database. > > > > Suggestions are welcomed. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jennifer Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:25 AM > > To: TechRocks Support > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > You're welcome, visit our website if you ever want to learn > more about our > > org it's www.gafw.org > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "DelCarlo Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:24 AM > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > > Jennifer, > > > > > > Thanks so much for your help. Will let you know how it turns out. > > > > > > R. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jennifer Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 7:52 AM > > > To: TechRocks Support > > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > > > > go to output, click on file export, then you get some options so click > on > > > letter merges, you can skip the contact records, if you want, then its > > going > > > to ask you to save it, so make sure you save it somewhere > where you can > > > access it again easily, like in my documents or something > like that, oh, > > and > > > also, where it says "save as file type" make sure you pick > the extension > > > ".mer" or word will have trouble recognizing it. Then you get a box > that > > > says, "Specify field order.." something like that, and you > have to pick > > the > > > fields that you want to merge, like "Name" and "address". > then you click > > on > > > export, open word, go to tools, mail merge, where it says, open data, > > search > > > for your ebase data that you exported, create the letter, enter the > > fields, > > > and "merge". If you have any questions let me know, it's really easy > once > > > you get the hang of it. Jennifer > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "DelCarlo Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:01 AM > > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I would. > > > > > > > > Thanks very much. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jennifer Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:07 AM > > > > To: TechRocks Support > > > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > > > > > > > have you tried exporting the fields you want for the mail merge and > > doing > > > > the actual merge in Microsoft Word? It's very easy, if that's what > you > > > want > > > > to do... I can give you specific steps because I just did one > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "DelCarlo Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:42 PM > > > > Subject: [support] RE: Doing a simple letter merge > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just tried to access the listserv but the window would > not come up. > > > > > > > > > > Simple question: I want to do a test letter merge (with a created > > > sample > > > > > letter and a brief found list of recipients). Following > the manual > is > > > of > > > > no > > > > > use, as the instructions differ from what I'm seeing on screen. > > > > > > > > > > Not too much to ask for. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account > preferences, > > go > > > to > > > > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support > and enter > > the > > > > email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, > http://www.ebase.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, > go > > to > > > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter > the > > > > email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ebase - 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