Form Letters (fwd)

Forwarded message: > Has anyone done an application which is required to generate form letters? In > my case, most of the text is boilerplate with a rare embedded field. I would > prefer not to rig an interface to a word processor unless there is no other > choice. Printing straight text from a table of boilerplate is no problem > but I'm curious if anyone has developed a technique for adjusting the line > when inserting a variable into a line. > > -- > Jim Nielsen Motorola Inc., Commercial Systems Division Writing out your variables into a mail merge file is the normal way of doing it. This is really not that painful - usually you just write the data separated by tabs. This allows you to do all kinds of wild stuff in the letter using the native WP, such as bold, fonts, graphic logos, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neal Rhodes MNOP Ltd (404)- 972-5430 President Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247 Fax: 978-4741 emory!mnopltd!neal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------