If you use Amor's speedy Protext word processor, you may be interested in this useful set of extensions. The package offers mail merge and, on the ROM version, some very nice improvements to Protext as a whole. It must be emphasised, however, that Promerge can only be used with Protext. The mail merge facility is implemented as a set of additional stored commands. These define how information from the data file is to be merged into, and affect the printing of, the template document. The way in which they work is easy enough to grasp, provided you're a bit of a programmer. If you've never done any programming, however, you could have a problem with concepts like variables and conditions. They do give a great deal of power and flexibility, but only at the price of confusion for some. As for performance, this is quite impressive. Documents can be inserted, passages or whole documents printed conditionally and data items manipulated. Into the last category come such things as extracting a surname or title from someone's full name, or the county from an address. Used with conditional printing this could mean, for example, sending a modified letter to all those on the mailing list who are women and live in London. The ROM version, Promerge-1-, also has some very useful features such as background printing - that is, printing a file while doing other tasks with the computer - and full-scale cut and paste. These really do beef Protext up considerably, and makes the system as a whole that much more attractive. It's a real shame, then, that Arnor couldn't either include these on the disc Promerge or build them into a new improved Protext. As it is, these slick features will cost you £75 from scratch, and that's assuming you've already got a ROM board. AA #9 | ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ DOWNLOAD ★ |
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Page créée en 227 millisecondes et consultée 1893 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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