Question
What is a Mail Merge?
Answer
Word has a feature called Mail Merge that can be used to create letters and other documents. It combines information from two documents or sources to create a new document containing the merged information. The process includes a main document that will receive information extracted from a data source to produce a final document.
The main document can be a form letter that contains placeholders (fields) that mark where names, addresses, and other variable information will be inserted. A field can be a data field, such as date and time fields, or merge fields, such as First_Name and Last_Name fields.
The merge fields denote what information from the data source will be plugged into that location, while your data source will contain information such as names and addresses that replace the merge fields in the main document. The final document is called the merged document contains one copy of the main document for every record in the data source.
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