December's Stuff You Need to Know Forum Contest

David Springer

Happy Holidays, RE Community!


It's MAIL TIME in Stuff You Need to Know this month! We've got videos, blog posts, Knowledgebase articles, and more to help you become a mail master in RE.


Now that you've seen our resources, we want to hear from you! What are some of your favorite tips to help users make the most of Mail? The tip or resource that receives the most likes by the end of the month wins this month's Forum Contest and eternal Community-wide glory! We'll be accepting submissions all month, but the sooner you post, the longer your suggestion will have to get likes.


For more great tips, please join me and special a special guest co-host later this month on the 14th for a Live Chat about mailings in Raiser's Edge. We'll be sharing some handy tips and then hosting a Q&A. We'd love to see you there!

Beth Romano

David Springer:

Happy Holidays, RE Community!


It's MAIL TIME in Stuff You Need to Know this month! We've got videos, blog posts, Knowledgebase articles, and more to help you become a mail master in RE.


Now that you've seen our resources, we want to hear from you! What are some of your favorite tips to help users make the most of Mail? The tip or resource that receives the most likes by the end of the month wins this month's Forum Contest and eternal Community-wide glory! We'll be accepting submissions all month, but the sooner you post, the longer your suggestion will have to get likes.


For more great tips, please join me and special a special guest co-host later this month on the 14th for a Live Chat about mailings in Raiser's Edge. We'll be sharing some handy tips and then hosting a Q&A. We'd love to see you there!

Last year I found that in quick letters you can combine queries thru segment, boy has this made my life easier.  Now I don't have to merge queries in Query.  Quick letters can create the query for me.

Carley Haynes

David Springer:

Happy Holidays, RE Community!


It's MAIL TIME in Stuff You Need to Know this month! We've got videos, blog posts, Knowledgebase articles, and more to help you become a mail master in RE.


Now that you've seen our resources, we want to hear from you! What are some of your favorite tips to help users make the most of Mail? The tip or resource that receives the most likes by the end of the month wins this month's Forum Contest and eternal Community-wide glory! We'll be accepting submissions all month, but the sooner you post, the longer your suggestion will have to get likes.


For more great tips, please join me and special a special guest co-host later this month on the 14th for a Live Chat about mailings in Raiser's Edge. We'll be sharing some handy tips and then hosting a Q&A. We'd love to see you there!

I've just found phonathon forms! We will be using them for the first time next week! While we haven't had time to get the pre-printed version there is still enough information that prints to make the form worthwhile and very handy! 

roger berg

David Springer:

Happy Holidays, RE Community!


It's MAIL TIME in Stuff You Need to Know this month! We've got videos, blog posts, Knowledgebase articles, and more to help you become a mail master in RE.


Now that you've seen our resources, we want to hear from you! What are some of your favorite tips to help users make the most of Mail? The tip or resource that receives the most likes by the end of the month wins this month's Forum Contest and eternal Community-wide glory! We'll be accepting submissions all month, but the sooner you post, the longer your suggestion will have to get likes.


For more great tips, please join me and special a special guest co-host later this month on the 14th for a Live Chat about mailings in Raiser's Edge. We'll be sharing some handy tips and then hosting a Q&A. We'd love to see you there!

We use merge codes in our thank you letters to determine (based on gift amount) whose signature block gets printed at the bottom of the thank you letter. 

here's an example -

{IF {MERGEFIELD Amount} >=1000.00 "Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland, President" "{IF{MERGEFIELD Amount} >=500.00 "Emily Buckley, Vice President for Advancement" "Roger Berg, Jr. Constituent Records Manager" }" }


While you're in the Merge template document in Word hold down Alt and F9 to toggle the merge codes on or off - that's more of a Word tip, but one that I have on a post-it on my monitor.