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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Mail Merge</title>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150757" xml-lang="en-US" level="1">Mail Merge</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151187" xml-lang="en-US"><variable id="serienbrieftext"><ahelp hid=".">The <emph>Mail Merge</emph> dialog helps you in printing and saving form letters.</ahelp>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154102" xml-lang="en-US">During printing, the database information replaces the corresponding database fields (placeholders). For more information about inserting database fields refer to the <link href="text/swriter/01/04090006.xhp" name="Database"><emph>Database</emph></link> tab page under <emph>Insert - Field - More Fields</emph>.</paragraph><comment>db browser explorer</comment>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154482" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Records</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154565" xml-lang="en-US">Determines the number of records for printing the form letter. One letter will be printed for each record.</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/all" id="bm_id3149685" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155896" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">All</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149691" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/all">Processes all the records from the database.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/selected" id="bm_id3143279" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3155186" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Selected records</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149483" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/selected">Processes only the marked records from the database. This option is only available when you have previously marked the necessary records in the database.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/rbfrom" id="bm_id3149097" localize="false"/>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/from" id="bm_id3148978" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151260" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">From:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149034" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Specify the number of the first record to be printed.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/to" id="bm_id3153643" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153631" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">To:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145758" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/to">Specify the number of the last record to be printed.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152772" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Output</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155138" xml-lang="en-US">Determines whether to send your form letters to a printer or save them to a file.</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/printer" id="bm_id3150497" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150485" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Printer</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149167" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/printer">Prints the form letters.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/file" id="bm_id3145785" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145773" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">File</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155910" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/file">Saves the form letters in files.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150109" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Save as single document</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3101901" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Create one big document containing all data records.</ahelp></paragraph><comment>save as individual documents</comment>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150110" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Save as individual documents</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id5345011" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Create one document for every one data record.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145263" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Generate file name from database</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id5631580" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Generate each file name from data contained in a database.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150108" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Field</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149829" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/field">Uses the content of the selected database field as the file name for the form letter.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150111" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">Path</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150687" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/path">Specifies the path to store the form letters.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147412" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">...</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149553" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid="modules/swriter/ui/mailmerge/pathpb">Opens the<emph> Select Path </emph>dialog.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150112" xml-lang="en-US" level="3">File format</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8992889" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".">Select the file format to store the resulting document.</ahelp></paragraph>
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