[bethaliz]

Hi,

I have recently become the editor of a news letter for my dog club. I've done wonders with WORD and PowerPoint to create a fabulous looking newsletter. However, I need a more effiecent way of managing my address book to mail out the newsletter.

This is what I would like to to

Have an address book with a group of Board memebers, A group of members that want there Newsletter via Email, and a group of Snail mail members.

I would then like to be able each month to select the email people and email everyone the Newsletter, Print labels for each member getting snail mail.

Right now, I have the email people in my Windows Mail contact book to email, Labels typed out for each member. However it's time to update the lists for the new year. I really don't want to have to go through each document to add, change etc each entry to update it.

There must be a MS program or merge program where I can put Everyone with All of there information in to a list or database, where I can add, update, change remove etc people. Each month select the group of people and print labels. and then select the group of email people and email them. This way each time A new person comes to the club I can imput them in one place, instead of putting them in the Membership list, and the mail list and the email list with a separate entry. I' have so much reduncant information.

Dose anyone know how I could do that? Can I just put everyone, with all their details into my Windows mail address book (or some address book), and use MS WORD mail merge to select the GROUP and print labels for that group?

Thanks for your help

[Martin L]

Access will do this for you, if you dont have any version of Access yet I would advice you to try to get your hands on the 2007 version, its much much better than previous versions.