Looking for a "special" program ...

[Brangwen]

Fellow Members:

I am looking for a program they may not exist, and may simply require patience to design templates for and put together.

I put together a yearly membership directory (of approximately 125 families) with cells for names of parents, children, telephone numbers, email addresses and a few lines for comments. This alphabetically organized directory is in book form, that is, it has a "binder" of sorts in the center where the whole page is folded in half, thus creating pages 1 and 2 on the front left and right, etcetera.

I'm in essence looking for a data base program for fields (cells) of info that can merge into a templated page (or project) that can be updated and when time for publication rolls around it can be printed out (stapled along the fold or "binder") and distributed.

Any such specified program known of? I've used MS Word but it required a lot of cut and pasting.

Thx.

Brangwen

[Ruler2112]

If you have the information in a database, look in the help topics of your favorite word processor (Word definitely isn't mine, but to each his own) for something called Mail Merge. You basically write your letter or whatever and indicate spots for the various fields. Save, then execute the merge and it'll print out one copy for each record in your database, substituting the data for the field identifier you put in the document.