Mail-Merge

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Mail-Merge

 

Mail-merge is the process of placing certain fields into a disk file that can be used to create personalized form letters in your word processor. To generate the names for a mail merge, click the Mail-merge item on the Output Forms combo box on the Print Control page of the Print Names dialog.

When you select Mail-merge, you'll be presented with a list of fields that you can select for the merge. If you need to use additional fields, they are available in the ASCII Export output form. Most mail-merges, however, will not use more fields than those presented here.

By default, CMD uses .csv as the file extension. This is especially helpful if you are going to merge this file with Microsoft Word or Excel since these programs can then see the merge file as a data base file they can import for the merge.