{"id":3054,"date":"2019-12-23T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=3054"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:19:57","slug":"introduction-to-mail-merge","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/chapter\/introduction-to-mail-merge\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Mail Merge","rendered":"Introduction to Mail Merge"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Perform a mail merge<\/h2>\r\nMost Word users only use a small fraction of the features available to them. One of the most powerful features of Word is merging documents. Mail merge is very helpful when you want to send the same letter to a number of people. Word will even create an addressed envelope for each letter. In other words, mail merge is a feature that allows users to create multiple letters, labels, envelopes, and emails, all with personalized data.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0Perform a mail merge<\/h2>\n<p>Most Word users only use a small fraction of the features available to them. One of the most powerful features of Word is merging documents. Mail merge is very helpful when you want to send the same letter to a number of people. Word will even create an addressed envelope for each letter. In other words, mail merge is a feature that allows users to create multiple letters, labels, envelopes, and emails, all with personalized data.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-3054\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Mail Merge. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Robert Danielson. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Mail Merge\",\"author\":\"Robert Danielson\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"5288e4b7-fdc3-4338-ae21-3bc0f79cc7eb","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-3054","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":773,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3054\/revisions\/5550"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/773"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/3054\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}