Excel For Mac Mail Merge

Thanks for the feedback! This script saves my _ when printing xmas envelopes, event invites and holiday letters.

Mail Merge master class: How to merge your Excel contact database with custom letters in Word In part three, you're finally ready to use the data you exported from Outlook to Excel, to create a. To use the Mail Merge Manager to create envelopes, follow these steps: On the View menu, click Print Layout. On the Standard toolbar, click New. A new, blank Word document opens. This becomes your main document. On the Tools menu, click Mail Merge Manager. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Create New under Select Document Type, and then click Envelopes.

After all, it's 'Mrs. Smith' in my AddressBook, but it's 'Mr. Smith' for any events. In my actual script, I also have a Note tag so that I can print 'Mr. Randy Lopez' on line 1 and 'Dr. Marie Lopez' on line 2, so as to follow the correct form of address (You can't put 'Mr. Randy Lopez' - it just doesn't work any other way).

Note: You can turn the text white in the Pages template so the construction parts of the address don't print, or you can uncomment the 'delete' line in the applescript (search for 'delete') to delete the text boxes before printing. Also, I opened the Metrics palette in the inspector, selected all the address link fields I created in my template, then changed the size and width to.05 inches and x,y to (.25,.25). Now I can easily drop this little patch of address links in any of my templates for the same effect. Uh, don't group them, I think I have to change the applescript for that.

I highly recommend learning applescript. When a program doesn't do what I want it to –Applescript to the rescue! It's relatively fast concept to development. Yeah, you're right, AddressBook is far from a business class contact manager. It has the underpinnings of a powerful contact manager - but then chokes on the interface and inter-application communication. But applescript addresses most of my nags. Sadly, I don't think Palm Desktop is inherently scriptable (Now, where did I put that free postal bar-code font so I can enhance my script!?) -GCL.

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