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Form letters and form faxes
FreeOffice: The functions for printing and faxing form letters are not included in
SoftMaker FreeOffice.
You find form letters in your mailbox almost every day – among them: advertisements
from lotteries, mail-order houses, etc.
A form letter – the addresses will appear in the fields {FIRSTNAME}, {NAME1}, etc.
Of course form letters can also be used for other things. How would you go about
sending written invitations to all the members of your bowling team, for example?
Normally, you would type the text of the letter, type the first member’s address in
the letterhead, and print the letter. Then you would put in the next member’s
address and print it again, etc.
It is precisely this repeated manual entry of the addresses that TextMaker can take
over when you create a form letter for the invitation.
In general, you create a form letter as follows (you will find detailed information
on the following pages):
1. If you have not yet recorded the addresses of the recipients in a database, create
or open a database and enter the addresses in it. The database TMW.DBF that is
included with the program is very well suited for recording addresses; however,
you can use any database you wish.
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