Re: mailing labels

[Joe Reimers <jreimers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't actually done this, but I'd start by generating a review file of 
patrons whose expiration dates are in the qualifying period, saving it to 
an FTS print file, then opening that file in Excel or a similar program and 
running a mail merge that way.  With a little bit of trial and error, you 
should be able to figure out a way to get Excel (or whatever) to read the 
appropriate fields and seperate them out as needed.  You may need to 
include field tags.

Hope this helps!

Joe R.

At 11:15 AM 3/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>We are implementing a "your library card is about to expire" postcard 
>mailing to our patrons. I've played around with mailing label output and 
>output user-selected format from our create lists (text-based system) and 
>am not real thrilled with the results of either one.
>
>The mailing label output gives us the best results except for 
>lastname,firstname format. The other problem is not wanting to print to 
>pin-fed labels but wanting to turn this into a mailmerge file to print 
>directly on postcards.
>
>Has anyone done this? Any suggestions on how to turn the list of labels 
>into a database file?
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Joe Reimers
Technology Support Assistant
Notre Dame Law Library
(574) 631-5994