On Wed, Nov 06, 2002, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
> This might not be what you want to hear, but it's my suggestion: screw 
> Word and use TeX.  TeX/LaTeX has a bit of a learning curve, but if 
> you're willing to make the document in whatever works (word, 
> appleworks, openoffice), you might want to give it a try.  It saves 
> documents as plain ascii text, so it's incredibly easy to modify them 
> with Perl.  


Not mentioned above, but TeX also supports it's own internal variables as
well - making form letter creation very, very easy - even without perl
getting into the mix.

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