If you want a new letter from scratch rather than template, write it down, hit F4 and drag column headers into the document. Having a valid data source and a prepared letter template you open the template (menu:File>New>From Template) add your letter text, print, confirm the serial letter print, choose the right records and print. in order to save the serial letter for reuse. When you are done with the letter, remove any text that is specific to this particular letter and call Print everything and choose output into one document. In the lower part you can specify where to print to. In the upper part you can filter and sort your addresses, choose if you want to print all of them or selected records only. to start a test print into a document so we don't waste any ink and paper.Ĭonfirm that you are going to print a serial letter.Īnother dialog pops up. The grey placeholders will be substituted with the actual table data when printing. Grab grey column headers one by one and drag them into your letter where needed. Notice that you can edit, insert, remove, filter and sort address data in this little window without opening any file. Menu:View>DataSources or hit F4 to show the data sources.ĭouble-click your database name, then and click the one table in that database to show your data. Open your letter or your preferred template for letters. You may close all documents now if you want. The so called 'database document' is just a 'connector' with no data.

Your address data are still in the dBase file and in your doc. So far we converted the Word table into a usable table format (dBase) and connected a so called 'database document' to it. Save the database (.odb) somewhere, for instance in the same directory as the. Create a new directory, name it anyhow and navigate into the blank directory. Somewhere on the save dialog you find a button to create a new directory.

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