Outlook 2019 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 email

If you’re new to the world of form letters, mail merge is the term 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 upon request. If your computer doesn’t have any version of Microsoft Word installed, you can’t run a mail merge from Outlook. (It doesn’t work with the free, web-only Word Online.) However, as I write this, you can’t even buy Outlook as a stand-alone product without ...