Chapter 27
Mail Merge Mania
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding mail merge
Building the main document
Conjuring up a recipient list
Making a recipient list
Inserting fields into the main document
Previewing the results
Merging (the final act)
Here’s a little quiz: What do these things have in common? Rocket science. Quantum mechanics. Brain surgery. Levitation. The answer: They’re all a lot easier to accomplish than attempting mail merge in Word.
It’s not that mastering mail merge is impossible. True, it’s an ancient word processing tradition — something that just about everyone toys with at one time or another. Yet the way Word handles mail merge is frustrating if you’re a normal person. That’s why I wrote this chapter.
As you might come to expect by now, the mail merge feature isn’t available ...
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