Hi Chloe, Please start by reading this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 13:54, chloe K<chloekcy2000 at yahoo.ca> wrote: > I have a file. list.txt (two columns) Separated by what? Tabs? Spaces? Can the fields themselves have spaces in them? Do you have many records, one per row? Please give a more informative example of the file you have... > I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg: > > Dear: Chloe > Address: CA Is that supposed to be a template? What are you trying to achieve? Replace "Chloe" with the first field and "CA" with the second field of the list.txt file? Create one file per row of list.txt? If you ask vague questions all you will have are vague answers... HTH, Filipe