# Powerful Mail Merge in a New Designer: TX Text Control Words > TX Text Control Words replaces the TX Template Designer as the included mail merge editor, shipping with full source code for royalty-free deployment. The MailMerge component now supports Windows Forms and WPF clients with connections to SQL Server, Access, ODBC, and OLE DB sources. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2012-06-20 - **Modified:** 2026-07-17 - **Description:** TX Text Control Words replaces the TX Template Designer as the included mail merge editor, shipping with full source code for royalty-free deployment. The MailMerge component now supports Windows Forms and WPF clients with connections to SQL Server, Access, ODBC, and OLE DB sources. - **3 min read** (556 words) - **Tags:** - Release - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/06/20/powerful-mail-merge-in-a-new-designer-tx-text-control-words/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/06/20/powerful-mail-merge-in-a-new-designer-tx-text-control-words/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/06/20/powerful-mail-merge-in-a-new-designer-tx-text-control-words/llms-full.txt --- The recently released [TX Text Control 18.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) demo application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/06/07/test-drive-tx-text-control-180-ctp-demo-released/llms-full.txt) is essentially the new **TX Text Control Words™** with powerful mail merge capabilities. If you didn't try the CTP demo yet, I highly recommend to do it - it is amazing. Why is TX Text Control Words™ changing a lot? The new demo application is not longer only a demo. It comes with full sources and can be deployed as your mail merge template designer royalty-free. It contains all features and functionality to create highly professional templates for your reports or other mail merge documents. The predecessor *TX Template Designer* is not longer available and the functionality has been fully implemented into TX Text Control Words™. It is completely redesigned and offers more features such as adding database connections to SQL Servers, Access databases or any OLE DB and ODBC database adapter. TXTextControl.DocumentServer.MailMerge Available in Windows Forms and WPF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- And now the best part: The powerful MailMerge component, that encapsulates the whole merge process including master-detail relationship repeating blocks, will be available for the Windows Forms and WPF client versions as well. You can easily connect the MailMerge component to TextControl, WPF.TextControl or ServerTextControl. Internally, TX Text Control Words™ uses the MailMerge component to show you how easy this process is. This change gives you the full power of mail merge in your Windows Forms or WPF based client applications. Let's have a look at the new *Mailings* tab in TX Text Control Words™. In this first step, you can select a data source. You can choose between Microsoft Access or SQL Server database files, an ODBC data source or a Microsoft SQL Server connection. ![Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/06/20/a/assets/mailmerge_step1.webp "Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words")After you selected a data source, the available tables are listed in the *Select Table* dropdown button. ![Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/06/20/a/assets/mailmerge_step2.webp "Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words")The *Insert Merge Field* dropdown button lists all available fields of the selected table. This button can be used to insert various merge fields into the template: ![Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/06/20/a/assets/mailmerge_step3.webp "Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words")To preview the results from the currently selected data table, select *Preview Merge Fields* and browse through the records using the data source navigation buttons: ![Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/06/20/a/assets/mailmerge_step4.webp "Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words")Finally, you can *Finish & Merge* the template with the selected data source. The data can be merged into the current document, you can create separate files or you can print the resulting document. ![Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2012/06/20/a/assets/mailmerge_step5.webp "Mailings tab in TX Text Control Words")This is just one of the new powerful features of TX Text Control 18.0. [Give it a try](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2012/06/07/test-drive-tx-text-control-180-ctp-demo-released/llms-full.txt) and stay tuned! --- ## About Bjoern Meyer As CEO, Bjoern is the visionary behind our strategic direction and business development, bridging the gap between our customers and engineering teams. His deep passion for coding and web technologies drives the creation of innovative products. If you're at a tech conference, be sure to stop by our booth - you'll most likely meet Bjoern in person. With an advanced graduate degree (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science, specializing in AI, from the University of Bremen, Bjoern brings significant expertise to his role. In his spare time, Bjoern enjoys running, paragliding, mountain biking, and playing the piano. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernmeyer/) - [X](https://x.com/txbjoern) - [GitHub](https://github.com/bjoerntx) --- ## Related Posts - [TX Text Control 34.0 SP4 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2026/05/20/tx-text-control-34-0-sp4-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [TX Spell .NET 11.0 SP1 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2026/04/08/tx-spell-net-11-0-sp1-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [Announcing TX Text Control DS Server 5.0](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2026/03/12/announcing-tx-text-control-ds-server-5-0/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 34.0 SP2 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2026/02/18/tx-text-control-34-0-sp2-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 34.0 SP1 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/12/03/tx-text-control-34-0-sp1-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [Introducing TX Text Control 34.0: Your Next Leap in Document Processing](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/11/10/introducing-tx-text-control-34-0-your-next-leap-in-document-processing/llms.txt) - [PDF/UA vs. PDF/A-3a: Which Format Should You Use for Your Business Application?](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/10/24/pdf-ua-vs-pdf-a-3a-which-format-should-you-use-for-your-business-application/llms.txt) - [Validating PDF/UA Documents in .NET C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/10/21/validating-pdf-ua-documents-in-dotnet-csharp/llms.txt) - [Sneak Peek: TX Text Control 34.0 Coming November 2025](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/10/02/sneak-peek-tx-text-control-34-0-coming-november-2025/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 33.0 SP3 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/08/14/tx-text-control-33-0-sp3-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [High-Performance Text Replacement in Large DOCX Files using C# .NET](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/07/30/high-performance-text-replacement-in-large-docx-files-using-csharp-dotnet/llms.txt) - [Document Viewer 33.2.1 Released: New Event and Bug Fixes](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/07/30/document-viewer-33-2-1-released-new-event-and-bug-fixes/llms.txt) - [Upcoming Support for PDF/UA Compliance and Tagged PDF Generation in Version 34.0](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/07/24/upcoming-support-for-pdf-ua-compliance-and-tagged-pdf-generation-in-version-34-0/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 33.0 SP2 is Now Available: What's New in the Latest Version](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/06/18/tx-text-control-33-0-sp2-is-now-available/llms.txt) - [Service Pack Releases: What's New in TX Text Control 33.0 SP1 and 32.0 SP5](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/05/07/service-pack-releases-whats-new-in-tx-text-control-33-0-sp1-and-32-0-sp5/llms.txt) - [Introducing DS Server 4.0: Linux-Ready and Container-Friendly](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/04/30/introducing-ds-server-4-linux-ready-and-container-friendly/llms.txt) - [The Wait is Over: TX Text Control for Linux is Officially Here](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2025/03/12/the-wait-is-over-tx-text-control-for-linux-is-officially-here/llms.txt) - [Full .NET 9 Support in Text Control .NET Components for ASP.NET Core, Windows Forms, and WPF](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/11/11/full-net-9-support-in-text-control-net-components-for-asp-net-core-windows-forms-and-wpf/llms.txt) - [DS Server 3.5.0 Released](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/09/24/ds-server-3-5-0-released/llms.txt) - [Using the Document Editor in SPA Applications using the removeFromDom Method](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/09/02/using-the-document-editor-in-spa-applications-using-the-removefromdom-method/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 32.0 Service Pack 4 Released](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/09/02/tx-text-control-32-0-service-pack-4-released/llms.txt) - [Service Pack 3: MailMerge Supports SVG Images](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/04/29/service-pack-3-mailmerge-supports-svg-images/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control 32.0 Service Pack 3 Released](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/04/29/tx-text-control-32-0-service-pack-3-released/llms.txt) - [Document Viewer: Long Polling Support for Loading Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/04/25/document-viewer-long-polling-support-for-loading-documents/llms.txt) - [TX Text Control React Packages Released](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/02/29/tx-text-control-react-packages-released/llms.txt)