This workshop provides the techniques to master one of Microsoft Office's greatest features for automating routine and time-consuming tasks. Participants learn step by step to use Word's Mail Merge feature in conjunction with data sources such as Microsoft Excel and Access files to create letters, envelopes, and labels for mass mailings. Feel free to bring your own files to practice with.

Key Points

Create form letters, labels, envelopes and lists

Discuss broadcast emails using Outlook contacts as your data source

Attach different data sources, such as Excel, Access and Word tables

Understand how different data sources required a different method of inserting the field placeholders

Edit a data source

Preview and merge documents