Mail Merges

 The intimidating Mail Merge is our next topic. I admit I was intimidated the first time I was tasked with one of these, but they were surprisingly straightforward.

You will be starting with completing your document before you start on the merging aspect.

For the purpose of this blog, I will be using a business letter as my document. You will type that out first and save it. After you have typed your document and saved it you will go into the "Mailings" menu and "Start Mail Merge", as shown below:

With your document typed, make sure you insert spaces for your addresses and greeting lines to go.

Have your cursor on your address line before adding your address block.

Now add your Greeting line, you will also put your cursor where you want your greeting to go.

If you have done it correctly you should have these two lines, Address Block and Greeting Line.

Now let's make our recipients list. Above is the menu selection for adding recipients, and below is the screen that will pop up when you start a new list.

Once your recipients are entered you will "Highlight Merge Fields" and "Preview." The preview will show you if you have done the merge correctly. This is also a great time to make sure your document is edited.

Once that is verified, click "Finish & Merge."

Your merge is all done. 

Mailing is a great tool for things like address labels and envelopes. It saves lots of time and manual labor!

Enjoy your new skill!