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7 <link type="guide" xref="index#merging"/>
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10 Merge a data source to create multiple documents.
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Jim Evins</name>
14 <email>evins@snaught.com</email>
16 <credit type="author">
17 <name>Mario Blättermann</name>
18 <email>mariobl@gnome.org</email>
21 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
25 <title>Document merge tutorial</title>
27 <p>Document Merge (sometimes called "Mail Merge") is a powerful
28 feature that allows a unique label or card to be printed for each
29 record in an external data source. It is however, the most mis-understood
30 feature of <app>glabels</app>. The following examples
31 will step through a couple of common tasks using the document merge
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