Mail Merge

Lesson Objective: I can perform a mail merge to create a DIO

What is a mail merge?

A mail merge pulls information from database and then pushes it to a predefined document…

“I WANT AN EXAMPLE” cried the students

So Marys Library again

Mary wants automated letters created for over due books

Where do you think we will be pulling this information from?

Open Up Microsoft Word

And create a letter template

Start the Mail Merge

Click here and then there

Then select the database and the relevant query

Start replacing fields

Insert data by using this and this

It should look like this

To see if it works click preview

Should look like this

Finish by using this button

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