mailmerge

[eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com]

"I use the mailmerge feature in Word to
 import variables such as the date of the report, the name of the product
 on which the report is based, the final score that the product achieved
 and so on... Is this something that I can do better using Framemaker?"

Out-of-the-box, No.

But, I've already written a FrameScript that assigns variable values based 
on an ini file. It would be relatively simple to work with a database, 
excel, or tab delimited file.

I had started, but have not yet completed, a script to do something 
similar to Word's mail merge, creating a new document for each set of 
defined variables.

With FrameScript, virtually anything is possible.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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