Date:         Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:49:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Alan Estes <alan.estes@PRECISIONDIRECTANALYTICS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Alan Estes <alan.estes@PRECISIONDIRECTANALYTICS.COM>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Subject:      form letters in SAS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

We're trying to create a production-level form letter.  The data
originate from a SAS dataset.  Is there an easy way to generate the
letter with SAS?

Maybe I'm just lazy, but presently, I write the variable data into an
Excel spreadsheet and have a Word template that conducts a mail merge
using the data from the spreadsheet...it's a fairly manual process.
I'd rather have this entire process encapsulated within SAS if
possible.  We have about 80 letters per day to customize and print.

Things I've tried:

1.  PROC FSLETTER....don't license that module.

2.  DDE to MS Word....can't get a record's worth of data to print the
letter out, then move to the next record and print that letter out,
etc, etc.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
--Alan Estes

  aestes@K2Financial.com
  K2 Financial, LLC