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Mail merge from Excel!

Mail merge is a powerful feature that allows you to combine data from an Excel spreadsheet with a document template to create personalized documents, such as letters, reports, or invoices. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do a mail merge from Excel:

Prerequisites:

1. You have an Excel spreadsheet with the data you want to use for the mail merge.
2. You have a document template (e.g., Word document, PDF, or text file) that you want to merge with the Excel data.

Step 1: Prepare your Excel data

1. Open your Excel spreadsheet and make sure it's organized in a table format with headers in the first row.
2. Ensure that the data is in a format that can be easily merged with the document template (e.g., text, numbers, dates).

Step 2: Create a mail merge template

1. Open your document template (e.g., Word document) and create a new document or open an existing one.
2. Go to the "Mailings" tab in the ribbon and click on "Start Mail Merge" > "Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard".
3. Follow the wizard's prompts to set up the mail merge:
   • Select the document type (e.g., letter, report, label).
   • Choose the data source (Excel spreadsheet).
   • Select the fields you want to merge (e.g., name, address, phone number).

Step 3: Link your Excel data to the mail merge template

1. In the mail merge template, click on the "Insert Merge Field" button to insert a merge field for each field you selected in Step 2.
2. In the "Insert Merge Field" dialog box, select the corresponding field from your Excel spreadsheet.
3. Repeat this process for each field you want to merge.

Step 4: Preview and merge the documents

1. Click on the "Preview Results" button to see how the merged documents will look.
2. If everything looks correct, click on the "Finish & Merge" button to merge the documents.
3. Choose the output format (e.g., Word document, PDF, text file).
4. Select the location where you want to save the merged documents.

Tips and Variations:

• Use the "Mailings" tab in the ribbon to manage your mail merge, including inserting merge fields, previewing results, and merging documents.
• Use Excel's "Text to Columns" feature to clean and format your data before merging.
• Use Word's "Mail Merge" feature to merge data with a document template, or use a third-party add-in like Mail Merge Toolkit.
• Consider using a template or a mail merge add-in to simplify the process and reduce errors.

By following these steps, you can easily perform a mail merge from Excel and create personalized documents with ease!