http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341 Comments for "Mail Merge Instructions" en http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341#comment-26945 <p>Hi.</p> <p>I learned to do Mail Merge in Word first, so the business of learning OpenOffice was actually painful. But all of the options shown have an equivalent in word.</p> <p>Use the help for Word's mail merge, it's not bad. You definitely want a "Letter" instead of "Labels".. And when you hook your data file to your Word document, Word gives you a toolbar that includes a button for inserting fields. This is a nice convenience. There's also a 'preview' tool on the same toolbar--it shows the record number with arrows to switch to other records. So you can see, for example, whether your spacing is wide enough for the stuff in your data.</p> <p>If you decide to do two pages per week, then you'll have a much more complicated job. I know it can be done--especially if you don't insist that they be printed back to back (that is, put some undated form on the backs of your two weekly sheets and you're home free--just put both sides of your week in the same image)</p> <p>shris</p> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:39:19 -0400 shris comment 26945 at http://www.diyplanner.com http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341#comment-26943 <p>Thanks! This will be an incredibly helpful resource.</p> <p>-Kenny</p> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:17:17 -0400 supenguin comment 26943 at http://www.diyplanner.com http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341#comment-26938 <p>Thanks, shris. You surely don't do anything half way. I'm going to have to fumble through the variations to do this in Word, but I have no doubt this will make it much easier. Of course, I also want to ultimately do 2 pages per week, but one step at a time...</p> <p>Fantastic!<br /> Reese</p> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:32:14 -0400 rlaundry comment 26938 at http://www.diyplanner.com http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341#comment-26922 <p>I, for one, thank you for all the effort that went into creating this pdf! It looks like tons of work and effort, and I suspect will be just what I needed to push me over the edge into trying this for myself. Thanks!</p> <p>-Jon</p> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:23:45 -0400 jonglass comment 26922 at http://www.diyplanner.com http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341 <p>Instructions on how to use mail merge with your favorite template to pre-fill information. Example: Dated daily pages, custom monthly pages, etc.</p> http://www.diyplanner.com/node/2341#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:33:18 -0400 shris 2341 at http://www.diyplanner.com