Mail Merge

We talked about mail merge in class today. It's a powerful tool in Microsoft Word that you can use to save time but create personal looking letters. To use mail merge you have to create a data source with fields in it. Each field is a specific type of information that you specify. Once you're done creating your fields, you start creating records. This is an entry with all the fields filled out. For example if you're writing thank you letters than a record would be one person with all the fields about them filled out. When you're done all you're records you can start writing your letter. When you write your letter, you insert fields in the places that you want. After you're done you tell Word to create all the letters in a new document. This will have all the letters personalized for each person but you'll only have to write the letter once. Like I said before this is a great tool because you can personalized letters but without all the work of writing all them one by one.