Creating mailing labels for your SWCS customers

Creating mailing labels for your SWCS customers

Summary

Using the SWCS 4.2 Export Utility and Microsoft Word, create mailing labels for the customers in your Solatech Window Covering Software.

More Information

Microsoft Word has powerful mail merge capabilities that can be used to easily create labels and form letters for your customers. However, Microsoft Word cannot easily access your SWCS company database to get the required customer information.

Tips and Tricks article "Creating Mailing Labels for your SWCS Customers" will step you through the process of exporting your customers using the new SWCS 4.2 Export Utility into a format that Microsoft Word can easily use. The article will then walk you through the process of using this exported data in Word to create mailing labels using the Mail Merge features of Word.

This Tips and Tricks article can be found here:

http://www.solatech.com/tipsandtricks/swcstt_maillabels.pdf.

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  • Solatech Window Covering Software 4.2

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