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Creating a RISC Form Letter Mask |
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Microsoft Word has loaded and we have already started typing in the form letter. At the top-right is a very important toolbox. It's the RISC-MS Word Toolbox. This toolbox is the link between RISC and MS Word and provides you with access to every data field available in RISC which can be inserted into the form letter mask. Looking at the sample letter so far, there is the school's logo or letterhead at the top, then it starts with {Today's Date} - this is a code which will be replaced by the actual date when the form letter is selected and merged with RISC data later on. There are about 28 different codes (or fields) which can be brought across from RISC into Word and inserting them is as simple as placing the cursor at the point you'd like a field inserted in your Word document, then double-clicking the desired field in the RISC Toolbox. While the above form letter is quite plain, it could easily be embellished with Word-Art, columns, tables, graphics and more. Anything you can do with MS Word, you can do in your RISC form letter. At the next point in the form letter, we'd like to insert the RISC Contact Action field - the big multi-line field at the bottom of the RISC screen. Let's do this right now. |
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To continue this tour, please click
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