Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Selecting Recipients

In the following window of the Mail Merge Wizard task pane, you choose a data source. This is the file that already contains contact information for the people who will receive your message or, if you are creating a directory, the file that contains the data you want to incorporate into it (see Figure 17.5).

Figure 17.5. Selecting recipients for your mailing or the content source for your directory.

You need to create or select a data-source document to accompany your main document. Your data source must contain the information that will change in each of your merged documents. Ideally, it should also contain headings or fields ...