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Wizards are sometimes more difficult i.e. Mail merge Why change?.
I train 250 teachers. I finally teach them how to use Mail Merge (2000) to
make class certificates and to query so they can make different certificates for different students and MS changes to a wizard that is impossible to use and it doesn't allow you to do a query unless you do a select and deselct with the Recepient List. The old helper worked so much better. Why does MS always fiddle with what is working. It is frustrating. I have to contantly retrain when new versions come out of so many things like I have to teach everyone to delselect the annoying drawing canvas that everyone hates. That thing should be deselcted on default. I don't know anyone at work or outside of work who likes the drawing canvas or the mail merge wizard! I have now made a tutorial for the teachers to use mail merge by the tool bar and not the Wizard. I did this because suddenly teachers were making their certificates by hand again. Every time MS makes drastic changes that make things that work more complicated, they loose people who give up. I have to continually help teachers to see that it is worth doing. I also do large lists and really hate selecting because there is no query, or is there and I just can't find it. |
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You can still use the mail merge helper in the current version - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm and you can turn off the drawing canvas (Microsoft invariably activates new functions by defaults, presumably so users are aware of them) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Frustrated trainer wrote: I train 250 teachers. I finally teach them how to use Mail Merge (2000) to make class certificates and to query so they can make different certificates for different students and MS changes to a wizard that is impossible to use and it doesn't allow you to do a query unless you do a select and deselect with the Recipient List. The old helper worked so much better. Why does MS always fiddle with what is working. It is frustrating. I have to constantly retrain when new versions come out of so many things like I have to teach everyone to deselect the annoying drawing canvas that everyone hates. That thing should be deselected on default. I don't know anyone at work or outside of work who likes the drawing canvas or the mail merge wizard! I have now made a tutorial for the teachers to use mail merge by the tool bar and not the Wizard. I did this because suddenly teachers were making their certificates by hand again. Every time MS makes drastic changes that make things that work more complicated, they loose people who give up. I have to continually help teachers to see that it is worth doing. I also do large lists and really hate selecting because there is no query, or is there and I just can't find it. |
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