Mail Merge

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. In this section, we will cover merging the list of names, called a Data Source, and the letter.

 

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