Hi Hilmar,

Thanks, that's already a big help, so I'll try from there. One question, though:

State County Number Records
state name county name number of records
state name county name number of records
state name county name number of records
state name county name number of records

This is how variable information should look like. How should I do template for this? (State name, etc. are variable detail lines).

>>Hi Hilmar,
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>>To be honest, I haven't done anything like this before. So, how should I proceed? I have a document. This document contains some variable information, like Date and some other fields. So, I choose Save as ... option, choose Template, but I guess, I need to insert something. I found MailMerge and MergeField. Is it what I need? Could you please provide more guidance?
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>MergeField, etc. are for MailMerge - when you have variable data in a table.
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>In the simplest case, a template is a text which you use as a starting point (advanced templates can also have formatting information and Word macros, but you don't need this for now).
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>I didn't do exactly what you need - but I think I would insert placeholders for variable information with special symbols. I will assume a letter, but you can extend this logic to any sort of document:
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>(This is the Word document)
>Boston, *Date*
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>Dear *Name*,
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>We appreciate your generous donation of *Amount*, which will assuredly be a great help towards our Noble Cause.
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>Regards,
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>Nadya
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>The document above should be saved as a template (donation.dot)
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>Then, create a document based on the template. Don't press the "New Document" button on the toolbar, since this will create a document based on the normal template. Instead, use the command "File | New" (?), and select the "donation" template.
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>Then, search on *Name*, etc., and use the insert command to insert the variable texts.
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>That should be fairly easy. For the automation part, save a macro, do all of the above, and look at the generated code. Try to convert it to VFP.
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>HTH.
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>Do you need help in getting started with automation? That is, getting a document reference?
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>... Well, I'll leave soon, and be back tomorrow in the early morning, at 11:00 UTC.