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From: sem@mbunix.mitre.org (McQueen)
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Subject: Re: Question for Word-Perfect users
Keywords: Word-Perfect & mailmerge
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Date: 21 Feb 90 23:14:41 GMT
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In article <13308@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> rlneal@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (r.l.neal) writes:
>I don't want to start another Word Perfect / MS-Word
>war but to this novice Word Perfect user, it seems that
>MS-Word handles mail-merges better.  With Word Perfect,
>the only way I can separate fields and records is with
>^R and ^E (special characters).  If I type the names
>and addresses into a file, then it works great.  But if I
>want to use a database, Power-Base for example, and create
>a mailmerge file, then I cannot create those special
>characters to delimit the fields and records.  Power-Base
>only allows non-special characters as field and record
>separaters.  

The CONVERT program that comes with WP allows conversion of ASCII
files (for example) to WP format.  One of the options is to convert a
file to WP Merge Secondary File format.  You can specify the record
and field delimiters.  So, for example, if your database can produce
an ASCII file with quote and comma delimiters ("field1","field2"), you
shouldd be able to convert it to WP.

Hope this helps.


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