If uniform documents are to be distributed to a wider audience, it quickly becomes tedious if you have to repeatedly enter names, customer numbers and addresses manually. Maintaining a bibliography by connecting a database is also far more convenient.

TextMaker NX and TextMaker 2024 provide an easy option for populating letters, envelopes, and address labels with dynamic data from a database. All you have to do as a user is select a record and determine where the data should be inserted.

Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox & Co.: many people use cloud services to manage their files regardless of location.

SoftMaker Office for Windows and FlexiPDF for Windows, too, offer the option to conveniently store documents in the cloud.

But how does it work? In this article, we'll show you how to save your documents in the cloud with SoftMaker Office and FlexiPDF.

After recently trying to reformat a family member's text document, I felt an uncontrollable urge to preach about the benefits of using paragraph styles. Before you go "yuck, that sounds like work" and quickly click elsewhere, let me tell you this: The main benefit of using styles is in preventing screaming nervous breakdowns. And I have the experience to back this up.

After learning the basics of TextMaker templates and the mysteries of master pages in part 1 of this tutorial, it's now time to take things a bit further.

To illustrate the possibilities, we will create a letter template with a second column which contains a logo, page numbers and a fixed background image (a watermark).

To follow this tutorial closely, you can click here to download all the images used in this project.

When you create documents with a word processor, you will quickly notice that many of them are quite similar. Letters tend to have the same layout, so do invoices, meeting notices, etc.

Some TextMaker users start every letter from scratch, others use the predefined templates. Adventurous users open an old document, delete the text and enter new text, then save the new document under a new file name. This is risky: All too often, they forget to pick a new name and accidentally overwrite an old document.

A better approach is to set up a custom document layout and save it as a re-usable document template. This is not as scary as it may sound – let's work through the process one step at a time.