Hi! Alan,

In a message to Tom Walker you wrote:

 AZ> I liked using MS Works, at least for being able to have a database
 AZ> file full of addresses, then inserting address fields into a form
 AZ> letter or label template in the word processor module.

Our favourite is MS Office 2003 Professional.  Barb uses it at home for
mostly word processing and a lttle Excel stuff.

MS Access is installed but it's no longer used.  I gave it a flogging for
about three years when I was the Secretary of a local gun club, to maintain
member records using either a custom data entry/edit screen form or the
data file itself.  I would routinely export Excel spreadsheets for the
Treasurer to keep up with membership payments, etc.  MS Word could access
the (Access) database to generate letters to the club members, and could
also generate the individual envelopes to enclose them (either three-fold
A4 for 'DL' envelopes or two-fold A4 for 'B5'[?] envelopes).

At work, I used MS Word exclusively to post DL & B5(?) envelopes from
its own 'data' file of addresses list.  I also created templates customised
for Post Office forms, that used the same data file; a form is fed into the
printer and the merge document is then printed directly onto the form in
the printer.  Easy-peasy.

Cheers,
Paul.

... Gotta go... the orderlies are about to check my room!
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox