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Mail merge with TXT template
I am looking for a tool or web service to generate Word documents from text templates. Any recommendations?
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Your question lacks clarity. Your post title refers to mailmerge, but nothing in the post itself indicates how your 'text templates' (whatever they are) might relate to a mailmerge.
Please clarify what your 'text templates' are and how you would propose to use them. A Word mailmerge main document can use a text file as the mailmerge data source - provided the text file is suitably structured (e.g. one line per record, with a field name for each item on the row, and fields separated by tabs or commas).
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macropod, I have .TXT documents with placeholders that need to be merged with the data and exported to .DOCX format. By placeholders I mean {{Name}}. The data is in CSV format and it contains columns that match those placeholders.
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Provided you create a mailmerge main document that you connect to the text file and insert mergefields pointing to your placeholders, everything should be fine.
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I am not sure that I understand your solution. What is a mailmerge main document and how am I going to connect it to my template? This is the same as mail merge in Word, except that template is in .TXT format which is not supported by Word. I would be doing this on weekly basis and have no control over templates (provided by a customer).
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It seems that you don't understand my problem. I know how to do mail merge in Word. The problem is that you cannot use templates in plain text format in Word. They must be .DOCX or .DOTX. Since I cannot convert them to Word I am looking for a service or a tool that can do mail merge with plain text templates.
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Word can open and save .txt files, so that is not the issue. The issue is that .txt files absolutely cannot contain the mergefields necessary for a mailmerge. Given that stricture, how do you propose any application would be able to complete what you're calling a mailmerge?
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I am aware that Word is the best tool for mail merge, but it is not the only one. OpenOffice can do it too. Today, I believe that the term 'mail merge' is more related to MailChimp and Gmail than Word. Unfortunately, none of them can solve my problem. Anyway, I found this free web app called DocBlender that supports .TXT templates, but doesn't have API support (although they mention it on their website).
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which quite obviously mean they're not mergefields. Hence your placeholders would have to be replaced with mergefields before a mailmerge could be implemented. If you don't want a Microsoft Office product - which essentially means Word or Publisher - I suggest you ask elsewhere.
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