Chapter 18. Performing Mail and Data Merges
In this chapter
Performing a Letter Merge with the Mail Merge Wizard 565
Selecting a Main Document Type 568
Preparing the Main Document 579
Filtering and Sorting the Data 585
Previewing and Printing the Merge 590
Creating Custom Merges with Word Fields 593
Understanding Mail Merges
Mail merge combines a main document with a list of database records to create customized copies of the main document for each record. The most common type of mail merge, of course, is a mailing. Mail merging was originally developed to create form letters, like the kind you probably get in your mailbox every day that address ...
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