FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

USING MICROSOFT WORD

HOW TO USE MAIL MERGE IN MICROSOFT WORD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first step to create a mail merge is . . . .
A
Merge data sources with master documents
B
Put data in its respective place
C
Selecting the select table dialog
D
Create Data Sources
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Go to Mailings > Select Recipients > Use an Existing List, then choose New Source to open the Data Connection Wizard. Choose the type of data source you want to use for the mail merge, and then select Next. Follow the prompts in the Data Connection Wizard to complete the data connection to the merge document.

Detailed explanation-2: -Click Start from a template. Click Select template. On the Mail Merge tab, select the template that you want in the Select Template dialog box, and then click OK.

Detailed explanation-3: -The mail merging process generally requires the following steps: Creating a main document and the template. Creating a data source. Defining the merge fields in the main document. Merging the data with the main document.

Detailed explanation-4: -For a mailmerge main document that has successfully connected to its data source (i.e. after answering ‘Yes’ to the mailmerge SQL prompt), go to Mailings>Edit Recipient List and hover over the file named in the ‘Data Source’ box. You should now see the full name & path of the data source.

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