Chapter 11
Merging Mail From Outlook to Microsoft Word
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating mailing labels
Making and using a merge template
Compiling form letters
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 on 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 buy Outlook as a stand-alone product without ...
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