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in a mail merge, what is the main document ?
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in a mail merge, what is the main document ?
Why don't you type your question, with some detail of what you're trying to achieve, in this big white space below the subject
heading?!! -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] |
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in a mail merge, what is the main document ?
It's the document that you want to make personalised copies of when you
merge to multiple recipients. e.g. Suppose you have an important business letter that you created in Word. It might look like this Canada H0H 0H0 Attn. S Claus 26th December 2008 Dear Santa Thank you so much for the partridge... Yours Peter Jamieson You then realise that you need to send a rather similar letter to a list of people that you created, let's say in Excel. This list contains 3 columns - a multiline address, a name, a closing, and a short description of a gift. So you turn that letter into a Mail Merge Main Document by a. connecting it to the list of people (termed the Mail Merge Data Source) b. inserting "placeholders", i.e. Mail Merge Field Codes, which Word will let you select from the Data Source, so the letter looks more like this: address 26th December 2008 Dear name Thank you so much for the gift ... closing Peter Jamieson During the merge, Word produces one copy of the Mail Merge Main Document for each row of data in the Data Source, replacing the placeholders by the data in the current row of the Data Source. That's the essence of it, anyway. Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk Tyonne wrote: |
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