Mail
Merge
Part 1 - Main Document
Have you
ever wondered how those people with the sweepstakes entries
manage to put your name several times in the letter to make
it look like a personal letter? You can do the same thing
in Microsoft Word by performing a Mail Merge. A mail merge
gives you the ability to combine a letter, envelope, or mailing
label with a list of names from another file in order to print
them out. If you're typing a letter, the advantage to mail
merge is that you only have to type ONE letter. Since the
letter will stay the same for each person who receives it,
you merely have to insert each person's address.
When
you choose Mail Merge from the Tools menu, the following dialog
box appears.
Step
1 lets us choose the type of main document. We can choose
to create letters, envelopes, mailing labels, or catalogs.
Since we have already created a letter,
we will choose Form Letters... from the menu. We will then
click on the Active Window button.
Here
is the letter we will be using.
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