How can I do this?

[ljh]

Hi

I currently have 70 word documents, each containing about
10 letters to different people. At the bottom of each
letter, there is also a 'cc' list relevant to the person
I'm writing to. This solution is now becoming difficult
to manage, and gives me no trackability as to who I've
written to previously. I would like to somehow create a
solution for the future that will enable me to build a
database of the people I'm writing to, along with all
other details (such as the names on 'cc' lists, ref no's
etc) that apply to them. If I then write to them again, I
simply click on something that opens this all up in a
preformatted document, (apart from the body of the letter)
and when printing, have labels automatically
print for each person on the 'cc' list.

I truly hope my waffle makes sense, and would appreciate
any advise you could offer?

Thanks
Lisa

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Ljh,

How much VB(A) programming background do you have? (Or are
you willing to pay someone to do the work?) Because this is
not a "trivial solution" that someone can just sit down and
type out for you "ready-to-use" in a couple of minutes.

I currently have 70 word documents, each containing about
10 letters to different people. At the bottom of each
letter, there is also a 'cc' list relevant to the person
I'm writing to. This solution is now becoming difficult
to manage, and gives me no trackability as to who I've
written to previously. I would like to somehow create a
solution for the future that will enable me to build a
database of the people I'm writing to, along with all
other details (such as the names on 'cc' lists, ref no's
etc) that apply to them. If I then write to them again, I
simply click on something that opens this all up in a
preformatted document, (apart from the body of the letter)
and when printing, have labels automatically
print for each person on the 'cc' list.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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