March 2013
Beginner
384 pages
8h 17m
English
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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