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Guy Hart-Davis, Learn Office 2016 for Mac, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2002-3_9

9. Creating Business Documents with Mail Merge

Guy Hart-Davis

(1)Barnard Castle, Durham, UK

In this chapter, you will learn how to use Word’s powerful mail merge feature to create business documents such as form letters, catalogs, mailing labels, and envelopes. Each of these types of documents is built around a common core, the main document, into which you merge variable data contained in records in a list, or data source, such as an Excel workbook or an address book.

Mail merge may initially seem daunting, but it’s a great way of saving time and effort—so if you can invest some time learning how mail merge works, you’ll soon reap the rewards.

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