June 21, 2008
Use Word fields to customize your form letters
Date: June 16th, 2008
Author: Mary Ann Richardson
At the end of the month, you send out a statement for each customer’s account. You would like to send one statement to customers with outstanding balances and a second one to those with a $0 balance. You do not have to create two different mail merge documents. You can use the same mail merge document for both types of customers. Follow these steps:
- Open how effective is propecia a blank document.
- In Word 2002/2003, right-click any toolbar and select Mail Merge. In Word 2007, click the Mailings tab.
- In Word 2002/2003, click the Select Data Source button. In Word 2007, click Select Recipients and then click Use Existing List.
- Navigate to the Customer database and click Open.
- Select the Customer table and then click OK.
- Click in the document. The figure below shows inserted fields after toggling field codes.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button.
- Select Customer_Number.
- Press Enter.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button and select Name.
- Press Enter.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button and select City. Press Enter.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button and select State. Press Enter.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button and select Zip Code. Press Enter twice.
- Type “The balance for the
- Click the Insert Merge field button and select Customer_Number.
- Type “account is “.
- Click the Insert Merge Field button and select Balance.
- In Word 2002/2003, click the Insert Word Fields button in the Mail Merge toolbar. In Word 2007, click Rules, then click If …Then…Else.
- Enter the fields as shown below and click OK.
- Save the Mail Merge Main document as Monthly_statements. (To check your work, select the text in the document, right-click, and select Toggle Field Codes, as we did in the first figure.)
To produce the statements:
- Open the Monthly_statements document.
- In Word 2002/2003, click the Merge To New Document button on the Mail Merge toolbar. In Word 2007, click Finish And Merge and then select Edit Individual Documents. Click OK.
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