USING THE SPELL CHECKER AS MAIL MERGE!

Hi gang! 
Guess who's FINALLY back from vacation? Yep me! How did you geuss?
This tip comes from the Geoworks Product Message board in the GeoWrite folder under "spell checker". It was discovered, developed, and written by GWRep Rose. Try it and see if you like it as much as I do. Rose.. you're a genius.. THANKS!!!

And now, from Rose:
"This is something I discovered in the wee hours of the morning (3:00am). While fiddling with the spellchecker (and forever longing for search/replace) I realized it could be used as a mini mail merge. Here's a short, silly little example to see how it works:

1.  Create and save a "Basic Merge Document" with the following text:

Name1
Address1
Address2

Dear Name2,

You owe me Amount1. Please mail it to me no later than Date1.

Sincerely yours....

2.  Use "Save As" to create a new document and start the spellchecker. As it encounters each of the unknown words ("fields") type in a replacement. Filling in the blanks moves along quickly even if the spellchecker stops at what you've typed in, hitting ENTER works to replace a word and to skip an unknown word.

3.  A test to see how much will fit in one "field" revealed "This is a test to see how much the spellchecker will let you typ".

4.  Yep, I thought of cutting and pasting from the GeoDex into the replacement window but the spellchecker closes up shop.

My example is silly, but I do see several obvious practical applications for this method, mail merge letters, simple fill in the blank invoices, etc. 

My mom would have loved this. After we kids moved away from home she typed "generic" letters to the three of us. I wondered why she wrote my name in (after 'dear') rather than typing it... until I got the third letter, a carbon copy."

Thanks again Rose.. NEAT idea!