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from: ERNIE HIGGINSON
date: 1996-11-09 21:34:00
subject: Mail Merge

I've been scouring the Word manual and wizards trying to find a way to create 
a sort of 2-level mail merge. Can anyone help me?
I've sent up a Foxpro database report to output selected fields to a Word 
file, and can get nice simple form letters with names and addresses etc. It 
works with no problems.
But I need to insert one of about 80 possible paragraphs depending on the 
data in one merge field. It would be ideal if the  could be 
replaced by the contents of a text file. Depending on the value in the 
, it would be replaced by one of my 80 paragraphs.
I used to be able to do this in another wordprocessor where I had my 80 
paragraphs saved as separate text or Word files. I'm sure Word must have a 
method to do this but I can't find it.
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
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