Comprehensive notes on implement Mail Merge in Documents class 10 provide you detailed notes on the topic/
According to Study material, mailing labels are required to implement mail merge. But you can create your own data source without creating mailing labels. Although we will cover the mailing label part in another post. So today in this post we will discuss how to implement mail merge in digital documents using MS word 2013 and LibreOffice Writer 4.1.7. So let us start!
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Comprehensive notes on implement Mail Merge in Documents class 10
When you start reading this article Comprehensive notes on implement Mail Merge in Documents class 10, you might be thinking that what is mail merge? So don’t’ worry in the next section of Comprehensive notes on implement Mail Merge in Documents class 10 we are going to discuss it. Here it is!
What is a mail merge?
Mail merge is a combination of two words. Mail and Merge, where mail means a letter or content written on paper and merge means to join. So in simple words, writing a letter and joined the letter with multiple addresses is known as mail merge. So let understand it practically.
Suppose your birthday is coming and you and your family members want to invite your friends and relatives for the celebration. Now, what you will de generally to invite them? Either you will inform by call or SMS or prepare an invitation card or any other means of communication.
Sometimes call or SMS is not that much effective compared to the invitation card. So invitation cards required. Now suppose you have 50 individuals, you need 50 invitation cards and 50 addresses you have to write on them. That is a little bit difficult and time-consuming.
To avoid this you can use mail merge. How? you will learn this in this post. In the next section of Comprehensive notes on implement Mail Merge in Documents class 10, we will provide you a detailed guide about how to use mail merge.
How to mail merge in MS Word 2013?
Step 1: Create a new file and type your contents of letters.
Step 2: Click on the Mailings ➝ Start Mail Merge option from the Start Mail Merge group.
implement Mail Merge in Documents
Step 3: Click on Letters option. Your screen will blink for a moment.
Step 4: Now click on Mailings ➝ Select recipients option from the Start Mail Merge group.
Mail Merge in MS Word Step 1 Select the recipients
Step 5: Select Type a New List for creating an address list. A new address list dialog box will appear with few fields. If you want to remove unwanted address fields from your address list click on customize columns button shown in the following screenshot.
New address list box in MS word
Step 6: When you click on customize columns button like in the previous step, a new dialog box will appear with Add, Delete and Rename button. Select the filed from field names and click on the Delete button as shown following screenshot.
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div>I have deleted unwanted fields like Company Name, Country or region, Home Phone, Work Phone, E-mail address etc. When you delete a field it will ask for confirmation to delete the selected field. Click on Yes button to delete. When you finished deletion click on OK button.
Customize address – Mail merge in MS word
Step 7: Now click type the values for remaining fields. Type the complete list of recipients and click on ok button.
Address List – mail merge in MS word
Step 8: Now save your address list.
Address List – mail merge in MS word
Step 9: Now you will get insert merge field active. Click on Mailings ➝ Insert Merge Field. Observe the following screenshot. You will notice the columns or field title as highlighted in the following screenshot.
Insert Merge Field – Mail Merge
Step 10: Now place your cursor at the exact location where you need the address field. and click on the field. Repeat similar steps for all the fields. You will get merged address field like <<addressfield>>. Look at the following screenshot.
merged address fields – implement mail merge in documents
Step 11: Now click on the preview results button. You can use the next previous button to navigate through the records.
Preview Merge Fields
Step 12: It will display preview as I am getting a preview for my first field like this:
Preview Field 1
Step 13: Now click on Mailings ➝ Finish & Merge.
Finish and Merge
Step 14: Now you can save all letters separately or print them directly or send by email messages.
Edit individual documents: When you click on this option a dialog box will appear to merge the recipients and the document like All, current or specific records from_to. Observe the following screenshot. Select your desired option and click on ok button. You will get a new document with a number of pages as number addresses you have in your address list.
Finish and Merge all
Print Documents: Similarly, you can use the print document option.
Send Email Messages: To send email messages you need email id in your address list fields. To send this mail merged document by email you need outlook configured system.
In the next section of implement Mail Merge in Documents, we will see how to implement mail merge in OO writer/
How to mail merge in OO Writer 4.1.7?
Step 1: Type your contents of letter or email in a new Writer document.
Step 2: Click on Tool ⟶ Mail Merge Wizard.
How to open mail merge wizard – OO writer
Step 3: Mail wizard open as displayed in the following screenshot. This step is all about to select in which document you want to initiate the process of mail merge. Select “Use the current document” as you have already typed your contents in the document. Click on Next button.
MAIL MERGE WIZARD STEP 1 – oo writer
Step 4: This step allows to select the document type out of letter or email. Select a letter and click on next button.
select document type
Step 5: This step is more important and you should be careful also. As here you are going to create your address list and address block. This process has 4 steps:
insert address block
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Select or create an address list
Select the address block
Match the fields
Preview of exact record match
Step 6: Click on the select different address list containing the address data option. You will get something like this:
Create Address List
Step 7: Click on Create button. A new address list dialog box appears. As you will see we are not going to use all of these fields in our address block.
New address list box in MS word
Step 8: Click on the customize button to delete unwanted fields from address blocks. Select the unwanted fields one by one and delete them. You can move any field using arrow buttons. Click on OK button when you finished.
Address List OO writer
Step 9: Now type address list values for the different fields. Type details for recipients address. Click on New button to insert a new address. Click on OK when you finished all entries.
Address List OO writer
Step 10: Now it will ask to save your file. Save it. When you save your address list do not use space between the address list name. And the screen will come back to address list. Ensure that your currently saved list should be selected. Click on OK button.
Address list Return
Step 11: Now you will return back to your insert address block step. Click on the checkbox in front of number 2. Check the preview as per your need. If the next button is not coming then click on more button and edit the required fields.
Check the preview
Step 12: Now you will get the create salutation screen. This is an optional part. Click on next button.
Now, a few steps are there to adjust your address block in the document. Adjust as per your need and click on next. Then if any modification required then you can edit the document otherwise click on next button. Then you will get the option to personalize document. This is also an optional step. Click on next if your document looks good.
Step 15: Then, at last, you will get the final step to save, print or send the merged document. You will get a screen like this:
Save print or send
Similarly, you can print or send the merged document by email also.
So I hope you like this post implement Mail Merge in Documents. Comment if you have any doubt for the same. In the next post of this section, we will discuss mailing labels.
