When I do a mail merge to send a letter to many of my clients, I have always saved a photocopy of the letter in their file. I am taking (baby) steps toward going paperless. Does anyone know how I can end up with seperate files for each letter?

This is one of the major flaws to mail merges created with Word. What we have done is to print the whole shebang to single pdf file and then print each page of the pdf file (or each 2 pages if the letter is 2 pages, etc.) to a separate file, saved in the directory of the actual client, of course.

Would that it were there was an easy way to automate this. You can use one of the various keyboard macro programs, but that is often more trouble than it is worth, as they are exceedingly tedious to set up and the slightest jiggle (such as a program kicking up in the middle of the routine and grabbing the focus) will render everything a big mess.

I agree that an automated way to do this would be useful.

Open Office Word Processor's mail merge function sucks, if I may use a technical term. But, it will output each individual "letter" to a separate document, which can be saved as PDFs, .ood, or .doc files. I'm living in Linux-land, but it may also work the same in the Windows world.