. PERSONALIZED FORM LETTER - ACCESSES CLIENT DATABASE . . . . A personalized FORM letter is simply a FORM as far as INFO-BASE is con- . cerned -- another template or way of viewing the DATABASE. However, there . are print commands that allow for text re-adjustment. First note that any . line beginning with a period (".") is a non-print line and unless it contains . a print command it is ignored by the print routine. Print commands are . in columns two and three preceded by a period (e.,g. ".pa" in columns . 1 to 3 tells INFO-BASE to space to the next page). . . **** Press "RETURN" to move to other sections ***** . . . Title first last .ad 3 .ll 70 Attention _______â ___________â _______________ . .ll 44 Note the â causes all preceding blanks to be eliminated after the . DATA FIELDS have been filled in. Initially formatting is off, else- . wise the line would be re-adjusted to its original length. The command . ".ll 44" limits the print line to the first 44 columns which . prevents "Company Name..City/State Zip" from being printed. . . ".ad 3" adjusts all print to the right by 3 spaces . _____________________________ Company Name _____________________________ Street Address _____________________________â _______ City/State Zip Dear ___________â; .ll 76 .fo on It was a pleasure to meet you and your lovely wife ___________â at our demonstration this past Saturday. I am sure you now understand how INFO-BASE can be used in any application which uses forms, and needs to solve the problem of data redundancy. For instance, if you already have a customer file that includes name, address, discount available, etc., then an invoice data base can be created and rather than re-entering the data for each invoice, it can be extracted from the customer file. Other applications include: insurance forms, real estate multi-list agreements, income tax forms etc. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. . Note FIELDS can be imbedded in non-printing lines, which makes it . easy to create extremely personal letters (see Post script below). . . ____________________________________________________________________ . ____________________________________________________________________ . ____________________________________________________________________ Yours Truly, Clark Readler . . You can individually print out letters (one RECORD at a time) or all of the . RECORDS by pressing Ctrl P (^P). You will be prompted for printing . the current RECORD or all RECORDS, and/or whether you want just the DATA or . both the DATA and the TEXT prompts. After you have finished with this . FORM press Ctrl O (^O) and enter "LABELD" in response to the FORM name . request. . Note a post script can be entered here using comment information. ____________________________________________________________________ .pa #(?@AX !" 9   DDDD