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[spacebug]

I learned that I hate mail merge today. I've spent pretty much all afternoon trying to print some stupid labels, and been unsuccessful. Urgh.

Sucessfully fixed the voicemail. Hooray!

Comments

[kittekaat.livejournal.com]

Hey sweets, what program are you using to do a mail merge with? I am tech support for ACT!

[windelina.livejournal.com]

If you're using Microsoft products, I'm pretty much a whiz at mail merge...

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Just MS word, in OS 9 on a mac. I have a list of addresses and want to make a sheet of labels. Or print the envelopes themselves, but I can't figure out the paper trays, either. Feelin' pretty dorky. I feel like I'm getting close, but help is largely unhelpful. Why do I need a main document and a data source? Why is there a single label function but not a simple label template I could just cut 'n' paste into? Or is there? Bleh.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Ah. I think I got it, finally. Yay.

[kittekaat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got it cuz I know doodly about macs. :)

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

Wow, I could really have used that about a year ago. ;-)

[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

I've mastered the mail merge. It was my career for years. Merging records from an obscure non-profit database program into Word to produce letters and envelopes on a nigh-daily basis. I was even tasked to write an excruciatingly detailed step-by-step instructional guide on the topic, just in case my supervisor and I happened to be in the same plane crash. Wish I could help you!

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Is it an easily email-able thing? 'cause I'd really like it, actually. I don't know how often it will come up after this, but I got it to work in a really inefficient, kludgey way, and it'd be good to be schooled on how to really do it.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

When they say Microsoft Access, its meant in sort of the sort of the same way as the Freedom of Information Act, i.e. not at all -- you get Access to shit, baby.

[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

In this case, it was a mail merge specific to Raiser's Edge into Word, but I didn't keep a copy of it anyway. I should've thought of that... What programs are you working with in your mail merge?