I have the fun task at my job of trying to convert our old DOS based data files and documents (Symantec’s old Q&A, if you’ve ever heard of it) into Lotus SmartSuite.
I have the data files themselves, and the documents with the defined fields that the data is merged into. I can convert the data files into dBaseIV, and I can convert the documents to WordPro easily enough. The problem is the converted documents don’t have any data fields, and all the help system has to offer is how to create new mail merge documents from scratch.
Is there any way to convert the old documents into ready-to-merge WordPro documents, or am I going to have to manually reinsert every field in fifty form letters?