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Printing merge letters

Printing merge letters - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Printing merge letters

One very popular request from FileMaker users, is the ability to print letters. And much like other applications like Microsoft Word for example, FileMaker supports this idea of merge fields. And those are really key to being able to create nice, printable letters. For example, if you navigate over to the customer welcome letter layout, that I've got in the exercise file. You'll see that in layout mode, I basically just added a large text area that contains what we want to have as part of our welcome letter. So the idea is this is something that gets printed out whenever we add a new customer to our database. And it's got some other verbiage already in there, but what I want to do is, add some dynamic information as well. So you notice that it says, Thank you for signing up. And also Hello. So after Hello, I'd like the customer name to appear, maybe their first name only. And let's say thank you for signing up, their company name, let's say, and even down here, your shipping address…

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