General ⇒ Cover Letter and Resume Autofill

[johnsar002]

I am looking to update my Coverletter and Resume in Latex, but I am stumped by this one problem.

The way i currently have my word document set up, I have basically an autofill box where i write in:

hiring manager name= _________
Job Title= _________
Company= __________
Mission Statement=___________

This way when I am applying to multiple jobs, if I fill out the company name and the job title, it is automatically populated into several different areas in the text. Is there some way in LaTex that I can insert a variable like this, and just populate the variable in my cover letter so that I can change the variable definition once, at the top of the document, and see it autopopulate?

I utilize this function in word a lot, and I cannot figure out how to make this work in Latex. I have to believe it is a simple dummy variable or something, but I haven't seen this question asked or answered.

Thanks in advanced!

[Ijon Tichy]

Depends on the letter class you are using. Generally macros are used for such variables. Define, e.g.,

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\newcommand*{\Manager}{John Doe}

at the beginning and then use

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\Manager

where ever and as often as you like. Some classes and packages provide extensions of this. See, e.g., \newkomavar, \setkomavar, \usekomavar in the manual of scrlttr2 or scrletter.