Outlook 2013 For Dummies

Chapter 13

Merging Mail from Outlook to Microsoft Word

In This Chapter

Creating mailing labels

Compiling form letters

Merging from selected contacts

Addressing envelopes

Creating merged e-mail

If you’re new to the world of form letters, mail merge is the term that computer people use to describe the way you can create a letter on a computer and print umpteen copies, each addressed to a different person. You probably get lots of mail-merged letters every day. When you send a mass mailing, it’s called mail merge. When you get a mass mailing, it’s called junk mail.

Outlook manages the names and addresses and passes them over to Word. If you’re not running any version of Microsoft Word, you can’t run a mail merge from Outlook. For those of you who are sentimental, I’ve heard tell that you can run the Outlook mail merge with any version of Microsoft Word. As I write this, you can’t even ...