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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Creating, opening, and printing documents
- Starting AppleWorks
- Creating a document
- Saving a document
- Opening a document
- Finding documents
- Linking to other documents
- Saving document formatting as templates (stationery)
- Identifying your documents
- Protecting documents with passwords
- Importing and exporting documents
- Converting documents
- Closing a document and leaving AppleWorks
- Printing a document or Help topic
- Chapter 3: Basics
- Chapter 4: Text (word processing)
- When to use a word processing document
- Text basics
- Changing text appearance
- Changing paragraph formats
- Sorting paragraphs
- Outlining
- Creating tables
- Working with pages
- Dividing a document into sections
- Adding footnotes and endnotes
- Finding and changing text
- Using writing tools
- Adding pictures and frames to text
- Creating links in word processing documents
- Chapter 5: Drawing
- When to use a drawing
- Drawing basics
- Changing the appearance of objects
- Connecting objects
- Arranging objects
- Locking objects to prevent changes
- Creating a master page
- Adding pages to a draw document
- Creating custom colors, patterns, gradients, and textures
- Adding clip art
- Adding text, spreadsheet, or paint frames
- Creating links in draw documents
- Chapter 6: Painting
- Chapter 7: Spreadsheet
- When to use a spreadsheet
- Spreadsheet basics
- Modifying cell data
- Naming cells and ranges
- Changing cells, rows, and columns
- Adding and removing page breaks
- Changing the display
- Printing a spreadsheet document
- Working with formulas
- Cell references in formulas
- Working with functions
- Displaying data in charts (graphs)
- Adding pictures or a text frame
- Creating links in spreadsheet documents
- Chapter 8: Database
- When to use a database
- Database basics
- Example: Creating a simple database
- Designing a database
- Entering data in fields
- Duplicating, deleting, and moving records
- Moving through records
- Viewing records
- Playing movies in multimedia fields
- Working with rows and columns in List mode
- Selecting and hiding records
- Sorting records
- Finding information
- Working with layouts
- Changing the appearance of data
- Presenting and summarizing data with parts
- Creating reports
- Importing data from other documents
- Printing a database document
- Chapter 9: Beyond the basics
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Chapter 11: AppleWorks and the Internet
Beyond the basics 9-23
To merge data, follow these general steps:
1. Set up a database. You can have a database of names and addresses, items and
prices, clients and facts about them, or any other categories of information you
want to merge with text. Be sure to save the database. Mail merge only works
with database documents that are saved to disk.
2. Prepare a merge document or frame. Enter the text that is common to all the
printed documents in a document or frame, and then enter field variables where
you want to insert information from the database.
3. Print the merge document with the database information inserted.
Each of these steps is described in the following sections.
Field data to
merge
Merge document
Placeholder
Result of mail merge
Database