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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question for Word-Perfect users
Keywords: Word-Perfect & mailmerge
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.033840.2285@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Feb 90 03:38:40 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <13308@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> rlneal@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (r.l.neal) writes:

> 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.

Either use the Convert program that comes with WP to change the
delimiters or simply load the list into WP and do a global
search-and-replace.  WP will let you put most of its codes into
the search or replacement strings, including the merge codes.  If
you do the same merge often, you can create a macro to fix up the
list first.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us