Dave: Thanks so much! This kind of help is great!! 1 (The field Salutation Line does what you're looking for) Using the Salutation line mostly worked fine, as long as there wasn't anything odd in the Salutation field to begin with. Many of our members are PhD's and for some reason alot of the Salutation fields are filled with 'Dr.' ( import problem). Is there a way to clean this up in one fell swoop. Can I do a search to bring up all the Salutation fields that have 'Dr.' written in them and then delete that word from all of the records at once?
2 (The solution I have used is to break the text into two blocks, separating it at the location of the signature. Mark both text blocks and the signature image to slide upwards and everything will move together.) Your explanation makes perfect sense! How do I 'mark both text blocks and the sig image to slide upwards so everything will move together'? I don't know what you mean by mark. Will grouping achieve this? Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rmbl.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TechRocks Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: [support] Re: Salutations > >Does anybody know how to insert a merge field in the salutation of a > >form letter that will insert both first names of couples and/or just > >the first name of single person? > > The field Salutation Line does what you're looking for. It includes > the value of Salutation 1 if there is anything in it, First Name 1 if > not. Then appends to it Salutation 2 if there is a second name with a > salutation, First Name 2 if Salutation is empty, with the two names > separated by an ampersand (&). > > >A second issue I'm encountering in formatting form letters ( in > >layout mode) is occurring when I insert a signature ( actual > >signature scanned and inserted as picture) at the bottom of the > >letter. In order for it to appear and print in the correct place, I > >have to position it several lines above that space, often on top of > >existing text. It prints correctly though. I don't understand why I > >can't just position it in layout where it actually needs to be. I > >had this problem with bullets as well. Any body else experience > >this? Grouping didn't help. > > The shifting location probably arises because the names of merge > fields are a different length than the values that get inserted. > Lines like Business\Organization and Address\Supplementary often have > no value. So the text gets shortened by a line or two and your > signature apparently drops in position. > > The solution I have used is to break the text into two blocks, > separating it at the location of the signature. Mark both text blocks > and the signature image to slide upwards and everything will move > together. > -- > -- > Dave Shaw H4 Consulting > tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 > > ------------------ > 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 - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
