Recently I blogged about of Community Emergency Response Team efforts:
I even submitted the content to our local Alameda Patch:
Because our CERT has divided our association into 4 neighborhoods to allow response efforts to happen complex-wide in parallel, there are 9 documents that need to be produced and distributed to 16 teams (4 teams for each of the 4 neighborhoods). I produced these documents using a process that involves Microsoft Word and its mail merge feature to make a master document and then manually editing the master down into information for each team and neighborhood.
The process looks like:
When it comes to mail merge, to create the list of residents, I have a Word doc (i.e., CERT 01 Handout Insert.docx) that looks like:
When it gets filled it, it looks like (e.g., for our house with some items pixelated for this blog…