Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Preparing to Merge

Now that you've edited your main document, set up your data source, and placed merge fields in your main document, you're nearly ready to run your merge. If you're in the main document, click on the Mail Merge button on the Mail Merge toolbar to display the Merge dialog box, as shown in Figure 14.26. (You can display the same dialog box by displaying the Mail Merge Helper dialog box and clicking Merge in step 3.)

Figure 14.26. You can prepare and manage your merge from the Merge dialog box.

From here, you can make key decisions ...