Word: Mail Merge in Depth

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Free Online Course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Word: Mail Merge in Depth is taught by Gini von Courter.

Overview
  • Learn how to create custom emails, labels, and other documents using the popular Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Create custom documents quickly with mail merge
    1. Set Up Documents and Data Sources
    • Word mail merge: The basics
    • Start a simple mail merge document
    • Choose a data source
    • Use mail merge with Outlook contacts
    • Create a new data source for mail merge
    • Merge with an Access table or query
    • Merge with Excel data
    2. Insert Fields and Merge
    • Match fields from the data source
    • Insert address blocks, greeting lines, and merge fields
    • Simulate the merge
    • Complete the merge
    • Open a mail merge primary document
    • Troubleshoot mail merge
    • Fix numeric formatting in the data source
    • Apply numeric formats in Word
    • Apply date formats in Word
    3. Email Merge
    • What email merge can do for you
    • Create personalized email messages
    • Go offline to merge email messages
    • Finish the email merge
    • Attach a Word document to an email message
    4. Create Envelopes, Labels, and Directories
    • Create envelopes
    • Create labels
    • Add an image to each label
    • Create a directory
    5. Use Rules and Other Advanced Features
    • Prompt for global input with FILLIN
    • Prompt for individual input with FILLIN
    • Prompt for repeating input with ASK
    • Use an If-Then-Else rule for intelligent merging
    Conclusion
    • Next steps