Mail Merge - Adobe Indesign Windows

[Matthew DeAngelis]

Hi,

I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the wizard to set
up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of my users are
not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful lot of clicks
involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the data to the
merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit Merge With
Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button automate this
feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail, since the data is
merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell). Barring that,
however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to the
appropriate doent would be helpful as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

[chas]

Hi,

take a look at the following Microsoft articles.

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209882[/url]

(ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Create a Word 2000
Merge Doent)

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209976[/url]

(ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Run Word 2000 Mail
Merge from Access)

hth

chas

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the

wizard to set

>up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of

my users are

>not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful

lot of clicks

>involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the

data to the

>merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit

Merge With

>Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button

automate this

>feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail,

since the data is

>merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell).

Barring that,

>however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to

the

>appropriate doent would be helpful as well.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>.
>

[Matthew DeAngelis]

chas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> take a look at the following Microsoft articles.
>
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209882[/url]
>
> (ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Create a Word 2000
> Merge Doent)
>
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209976[/url]
>
> (ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Run Word 2000 Mail
> Merge from Access)
>
> hth
>
> chas
>
>
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the

> wizard to set

> >up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of

> my users are

> >not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful

> lot of clicks

> >involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the

> data to the

> >merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit

> Merge With

> >Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button

> automate this

> >feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail,

> since the data is

> >merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell).

> Barring that,

> >however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to

> the

> >appropriate doent would be helpful as well.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Matt
> >.
> >

Thanks, that does the trick very well.

Regards,
Matt

[Michelle_Alexander@adobeforums.com]

Is it possible to do a mail merge in InDesign similiar to the one you can do in MS Word. I would really like to lay out my marketing pieces in InDesign, but they need to be personally addressed. Am I asking too much?

[Bob_Levine]

If you have InDesign CS then you can do this using the Pagemaker plugins.

Bob

[Sherry_Johnson@adobeforums.com]

I'm using InDesign CS v. 3 with PageMaker plug-in... my issue is with the mail merge ... I've designed a postcard that I want to print 2-up on an 8 1/2 x11 piece of paper-- I want record 1 on the top card and record 2 on the second card-ON THE SAME PAGE.. I know there is a mulitple record feature but it (ok I'm) is not working right... I just get record 1 twice.... Help! Thanks!
Sherry

[NTD@adobeforums.com]

Sherry,

Been a while since I've done this and Ken had to help me out.

As I recall, you need to have only one postcard on the page to use the multiple record feature. If done properly, it will repopulate the page with the other post cards and different names.

Do a search of the forum and see if you can't find the other threads. It is a tad confusing at the beginning, to get the hang of it, then it works like a charm.

[Sherry_Johnson@adobeforums.com]

THANKS!! I got it!! I was trying to recreate the whole thing myself... I had no idea it would duplicate the entire postcard-- HOW COOL IS THAT!?? That was just the info Ineeded to figure it out--

Sherry

[NTD@adobeforums.com]

Glad it worked for you.