And then read these articles:

How to create a Mail merge
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...AMailMerge.htm

Creating a mail merge Data Source
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...DataSource.htm


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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:33:01 -0700, "please help"
wrote:

in a document that is sent out to many different companies. how can you
change only certain fields in order to personalize it? how can you do
this
automatically without having to find and replace.

Look in Word's help for the term "mail merge".

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