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    Mail Merge for Beginners: Mail Merge Essentials, #1
    Mail Merge for Beginners: Mail Merge Essentials, #1
    Mail Merge for Beginners: Mail Merge Essentials, #1
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    Mail Merge for Beginners: Mail Merge Essentials, #1

    By M.L. Humphrey

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    A mail merge is a great time-saver for when you need to print out a series of personalized letters, envelopes, or mailing labels. This introductory guide to mail merge will walk you through how to use Microsoft Word and an Excel-based list to create a customized letter, envelope, or mailing label.

    The guide is written using Office 2013 and assumes a basic understanding of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. If you're not familiar with one or the other, you should probably start with Word for Beginners and/or Excel for Beginners first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.L. Humphrey
    Release dateApr 17, 2019
    ISBN9781386070283
    Mail Merge for Beginners: Mail Merge Essentials, #1
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    M.L. Humphrey

    Hi there Sci Fi fans, my name is Maurice Humphrey.I am a Vermont native, husband, father, grandfather, well over 60, Navy veteran, retired IBM engineer, retired printer repairman, Graduated: Goddard Jr. College, VT Technical College, and Trinity College. Over the years I’ve written technical articles, taught technical classes, and presented at technical conventions.I’ve been reading science fiction for over 50 years now. First books were “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” by Jules Verne and “The Stars Are Ours” by Andre Norton. I’ve read and collected many great stories, and a considerable amount of junk ones as well. I’d say by now that I probably have a good idea of what I consider a good story.

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      Mail Merge for Beginners - M.L. Humphrey

      Mail Merge for Beginners

      Also by M.L. HUMPHREY

      Word Essentials

      Word for Beginners

      Intermediate Word

      Mail Merge

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      Excel Essentials

      Excel for Beginners

      Intermediate Excel

      50 Useful Excel Functions

      50 More Excel Functions

      PowerPoint Essentials

      PowerPoint for Beginners

      Intermediate PowerPoint

      Budgeting for Beginners

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      Mail Merge for Beginners

      M.L. HUMPHREY

      Contents

      Introduction

      Step 1: Create Your Source File

      Step 2: Create Your Letter Template

      Step 3: Start Your Mail Merge

      Step 4: Link to Your Source File

      Step 5: Insert Customized Fields Into the Template

      Step 6: Preview Your Mail Merge

      Step 7: Fixing Errors or Issues

      Step 8: Finalize the Mail Merge

      Other Thoughts and Comments

      Conclusion

      Appendix A: Basic Terminology

      About the Author

      Copyright

      Introduction

      This guide is for anyone who wants to learn how to perform a basic mail merge in Microsoft Office. The focus will be on how to merge an Excel-based mailing list into a Word-based template, so you should have a basic familiarity with both Word and Excel before using this guide.

      We'll cover how to use a mail merge to create customized letters, envelopes, and mailing labels.

      For those of you not familiar with what a mail merge is, it essentially takes a list of information and combines that with a template to create customized letters. If you've ever received one of those notices from your doctor's office reminding you of your annual check-up, you've probably received a letter created via a mail merge.

      While you can also create customized email messages or use an Outlook contact list to create a mail merge, we will not address that in this guide. This guide is going to focus on a beginner-level mail merge using Excel and Word. (Mostly because I don't have a beginner's guide to Outlook that I could send you to if

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