From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth

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- Our final type of Mail Merge is a directory merge. In older versions of word this was called a catalog merge. We use a directory merge to create an email list a catalogue of accounts a phone directory to create anything where you're taking information out of a data source and putting it into Word in a way that we haven't handled yet. Basically we're making tables. If you have a report where you retrieve data from a database that you're struggling to format, you could use a directory merge to pull that data into Word and have access to the formidable formatting tools that are part of the Microsoft Word portfolio. I wouldn't struggle to try to bold and highlight reports and access, if I could bring all that data in here and format it in Word. Let's see how we're going to pull our data for our directory merge. Having chosen Directory, we now go to Select recipients and we're going to pick up the Catalog request, workbook and…

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