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    • Bob DelmarB
      Bob Delmar
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      …as in Word–I think that would get me away from using Word altogether.
      Thanks for any information

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      • Meta ChuhM
        Meta Chuh moderator @Bob Delmar
        last edited by Meta Chuh

        welcome to the notepad++ community, @Bob-Delmar

        notepad++ is not capable of doing so with it’s built in features.

        you would have to first make a template of your envelope to print, with variable markers where name and address shall be placed.

        then create a file, that contains all names and addresses, having one separated line per address, where name, address, etc. are csv ; style separated
        (eg. an excel export of an address list).

        then you would need to use a scripting language plugin like pythonscript or luascript, and create a script to read line by line of the address text file, replace the variable markers at the source template and trigger printing for each replace loop.

        this would be a nice idea to play around, but far, far more work, than to do it with the built in form letter function of microsoft word.

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        • Bob DelmarB
          Bob Delmar
          last edited by

          Thanks.
          Your last line says it all…
          Joe

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