James Hurley wrote: > This is a new area for me, but I'm sure it is a common task for many of > you. > > I have a mail merge job for a local election. > > I have generated all the data in RR for the letter, i.e. the label and > the greeting for the letter from the election data base. (This greeting > is a little complicated and that's where RR comes in. It is necessary to > construct a greeting for the household, a household which may contain > several people and some with different last names. Anyway Rev is good > at that part.) > > Is there a convenient way to do the merging of this data with the > letter in RR or should I just export the data to File Maker and > construct the letter there? > > In RR would you store the data and the text of the letter in variables, > putting them together to construct the text for the field and then > revprintfield in a repeat loop, one loop for each letter? Is this very > slow? I have a lot of letters to do. > > And how can one deal with the formatting, for example center the > addressee's name and address at the top of the field, RR allows only > alignment for the entire field? > > Thanks, > > Jim Hurley >
Jim, If you haven't looked at revolution's "merge" command you should do so as you might find it helpful for that part. As for formatting for print I haven't really done anything like that with revolution, so I don't know about that but I'd guess that could be the harder part to do. Martin Baxter -- I am Not a Number, I am a free NaN _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution