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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Data Entry forms for Word
Summary: use HyperCard
Message-ID: <109@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 21 Jul 89 21:35:23 GMT
References: <111900070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services
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In article <111900070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, dbdg0480@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I am looking for software, public domain or otherwise, that will allow you to
> set up data entry screens to be used with the mail merge function of MS-Word.
> What we want, is instead of having to format the info properly yourself in the
> data file, is a program that will allow you to set up field names and sizes
> the enter records into the form and use it in form letters and other ways in
> a word processing file.

This is pretty easy to do in HyperCard - creating a set of records using a
nice screen form in a HyperCard stack, and then exporting a "formatted" 
set of mail merge records to a plain text file using a simple script.  

(the data file for the merge can be plain text, it does not actually 
have to be a formatted Word file).  A handy tool to make this easier is 
the FieldToFile XCMD from the Dartmouth XCMD collection.  (The XCMD lets
you specify the creator for the file) If anybody is really interested I 
could post an example stack to mac.binaries or the hypercard group.


Wade Blomgren
wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu