Customizing Merged Documents with Word Fields
In many mailings, every form letter is alike, except for a personalized name, address, and salutation (Dear Mr. Jones). However, in other mailings you may want to customize your form letters further, varying your message depending on the individual recipient. In still other cases, you may want to skip certain recipients altogether, while still retaining them in your data source. Word provides a set of special fields that can be used to customize your letters in ways like these.
→ For more information about Word fields in general, see Chapter 23, “Automating Your Documents with Field Codes,” p. 771.
These mail-merge fields provide many ways in which you can customize a merge. To insert any Word field, ...
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