Wizards are sometimes more difficult i.e. Mail merge Why change?.

[Frustrated trainer]

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.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can still use the mail merge helper in the current version - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_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)

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