Recall Printing Letters
Printing Recall offers many output options including post cards, mailing labels, and the Recall Phone Report. There is also an MS Word Merge Letter option available. From the Main Menu click the Print Recall button. The Recall Printing Parameters screen will display.

NOTE - All the rules of recall printing apply when printing recall letters. See the section on Recall Printing for a full discussion.

Recall Printing Data File (RECmerge.doc)
The data file that Diamond Dental Software creates for the Recall Printing is RECmerge.doc. This is created in the Diamond Dental Software directory (STARWIN) unless you modified this setting in the Microsoft Word Mail Merge Maintenance screen. Diamond Dental Software has included a Recall Letter that you can modify and print, or you can design your own. The RECmerge.doc file data has the following fields (all fields refer to the patient being recalled):

• Account_ID
• FirstName
• MI (middle initial)
• LastName
• Title
• SrJr
• SalutationName (whatever was entered in this field by user)
• FullFormalName (such as Mr. Thomas A. Edison Sr.)
• FirstNamePlusMI (such as Alfred E.)
• LastVisit (date)
• RecDate (the patient’s recall date)
• MTuWThF (the day of the week of the recall date, Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
• Month (the month of the recall date, January, February, etc.)
• Day (the day of the recall date in the form of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 24th, etc.)
• Time (the time of the recall appointment such as 10:15 AM)
• Recall_Category (established when setting recall)
• Recall Message (the same message that would have printed on the post card)
• DDSHygiene_Name (the name of the provider assigned to this recall)
• Street_Address
• City
• State
• Zip_Code