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Printing merge letters

Printing merge letters - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Printing merge letters

- [Instructor] One very popular request from a lot of FileMaker users is to have the ability to print letters. And much like other applications, like Word for example, FileMaker supports merge fields. And the other feature that FileMaker has is the ability to generate a group of records, or in this case, many different letters. So you'll notice if we go into Layout Mode, that this customer welcome letter layout is based on the customer table. So what that means, if we were to go into the customer detail layout, and I was to search for every customer in California, you see that I get a found set of 25 records. Now if I navigate over to the customer welcome letter, you see that I still have a found set of 25 records. So this is how we determine which of our customers, in this example, we are going to print letters for. So now we just have to figure out how to get the data from each record into the letter. So if we go into Layout Mode, one of the ways that we could do this is to go into…

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