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Mindy - 03 Feb 2004 19:46 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to do a mass email for the first time. I created the document in Word and I imported the contact information from Outlook. How can I make it so that the greeting line to read Dear Mr./Mrs. Doe and not Mr. John Doe? If someone could help me figure this out, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Mindy

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Graham Mayor - 03 Feb 2004 21:52 GMT

You need to start the merge from Outlook to gain access to all the fields.
Then if you have the title field filled you could use a conditional field
eg.

Dear {IF {mergefield title} <> "" "{Mergefield Title} {Mergefield
Last_Name}" "Sir/Madam"}

Use CTRL+F9 to set the field boundaries {}

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> Hi, I'm trying to do a mass email for the first time. I created the
> document in Word and I imported the contact information from Outlook.
> How can I make it so that the greeting line to read Dear Mr./Mrs. Doe
> and not Mr. John Doe? If someone could help me figure this out, I
> would really appreciate it. Thanks, Mindy

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