[mso] Re: Making the computer think before a Word Mail merge

Try a new field in the query. Let's say the last donation was called
DonationAmount. Your new field in the query might be defined as follows:

        NewSuggestion: Round([DonationAmount]*1.5 + 5,0)

Ii don't really understand what you're getting at in terms of the 'last
in a range' or 'option set A'. Want to elaborate?

Ray

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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kathie Felts
Sent: 17 November 2004 16:59
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Making the computer think before a Word Mail merge


Queries are not easy for the average American, and I find that I screw  
things up more than I fix them when I try to program a querie.  I have a

database in Access that I have been futzing with for months to get it to

tell me things about my donors that I want to know.  It isn't yet where
I  
want it, but I haven't totally ruined it yet either.

Being that I'm talking about a word mail merge (as evidenced in the
title  
of the thread) and I'm starting with Access (as evidenced in the
question)  
the problem is the figuring out what the last donation plus 50% rounded
to  
the nearest $5 increment is.  The amount of the last donation is in  
Access.  Last donation +50% rounded to the nearest $5 increment is not.

I'd like to make a string of donation suggestions based on the amount of

the last donation, so, how do I do that easily?

Recognize that Access for Dummies is a challenging text for me.  I'm
sort  
of with Ray when it comes to the beauty of excel, but I don't know how
I'd  
program it to figure out what last plus 50% ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST $5.
I  
could do the percents, its the rounding I don't know yet.

I'm also offering that it might be last donation in a range? insert  
suggested gift option set A.  In a different range?  Insert suggested
gift  
option  set B.  That might be the easiest way to program it in Excel,
but  
I don't know yet what that would look like.

Kathie


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