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by gfeeley

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I have a document of 19,000 mailing labels which need to be merged into a letter. The labels have no merge fields. Ex: Dr. John Smith, M.D. How can I add a merge field for "smith" so my letter will read Dear Dr. "smith"? Please answer at my email address gfeeley@fhcs.org. Thank you.

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by dklippert

You'll need to covert your labels into a data source.
A lot depends on the way the labels were formatted.
If they are set up with Name, Street, City each on a seperate line, here is one way to do it.
Edit>Replace Replace ^p with @@
Select the table and choose to convert it using paragraph marks.
Then replace @@ with ^t
Select and convert to a table. Add a row at the top with the heading Name, Street, City and use that as a data source. You could also put that table into Excel for easier manipulation.

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