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From: burgoyne@eng.umd.edu (John R. Burgoyne)
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Subject: Re: WP Mail merge from dBase III+ ????
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:01:46 GMT
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In article <15600004@hpfcso.HP.COM> pgt@hpfcso.HP.COM (Paul G. Tobin) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know of a *reasonably* easy way to create WP5.1
>secondary merge files from dBase III+?  I know of 1 very ugly path,
>consisting of writing some spreadsheet format file from dBase, running
>the "convert" program supplied with WP5.1, and editing out the first
>record in the resulting secondary merge file.  Yick -- that's too
>complicated and error prone for *any* user, much less the somewhat
>inexperienced users who'll be using this setup.
>

I create labels in DBASE which have the appropriate fields, then export
the results to a disk file (ASCII). I then have a couple of WP macros
which clean up the ASCII file and put in the appropriate End Field,
End Record commands. This then merges quite well with the WP primary file.

Robert