Learning Claris FileMaker

If you currently hand type your business’s envelopes, letters, and other complex documents like proposals and legal forms, you would greatly benefit from using mail merge.

Mail merging, the process of filling in a template document with records from a data source, saves countless hours of double data entry and reduces human error; instead of typing out each recipient’s information, Microsoft Word (or another similar word processor) automatically does all the work for you.

In addition it is possible to create mail merges with records from your FileMaker system to save even more time.

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Empowering users of your solution to create their own form letters is life-changing.

No longer do they have to contact the developer, explain their needs and go through a back-and-forth testing stage.

The developer just designs a single interface that allows the user to create, save, edit and delete their own form letters.

It's really not that hard to program either.

You just need some global fields, a calculation and a couple of scripts for the foundation of this technique.

This approach seems like less income for the developer but that's shortsighted.

I always say happy clients equal more business!