mail merge

[smwwks]

Version: 2008

I have an existing Word doc (letter). I would like to put merge fields in for name, address, etc from an existing data base.. How do I do that?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Assuming you got as far as Tools->Mail merge manager, select document type,
then "Get List"...

If your database isn't the Office Address Book, a FileMaker Pro database, or
one of the other formats Word 2008 supports (and I think that is basically,
"Word document and text files that Word knows how to open, and Excel
workbooks") I do not think you will be able to connect directly.

Excel 2008 can use 3rd party ODBC drivers to get data out of databases with
suitable driver support. Then you would have to use the resulting Excel
workbook as your data source.

I don't know what the options are if you have Filemaker Pro (which also has
ODBC features) and a suitable ODBC driver).