From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth
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Insert address blocks, greeting lines, and merge fields
From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth
Insert address blocks, greeting lines, and merge fields
- [Instructor] This mail merge primary document, Merge Brochure - Matched which we saved in the prior movie includes the connection to our Excel worksheet we're using as a data source and also the mapping, or matching that we did for the fields in that data source. Now it's time to actually insert placeholders that refer to those fields in our letter so that we have a placeholder replacing everywhere there's static text. I'm going to slide down and do a really easy one first. This is Lilah, this is the first name. And rather than have the letter say Lilah for everybody, we'd like it to change and use data from our data source. I'm going to choose insert merge field, first name, and Lilah's name is now replaced with a placeholder, a merge field for the first name. It has chevrons around it. That's not as if we type less than, less than, first name, greater than, greater than. You can't actually type this in; you have to…
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Match fields from the data source3m 56s
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Insert address blocks, greeting lines, and merge fields4m 51s
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Simulate the merge2m 47s
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Complete the merge4m 4s
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Open a mail merge primary document2m 29s
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Troubleshoot mail merge5m 23s
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Fix numeric formatting in the data source3m
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Apply numeric formats in Word4m 24s
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Apply date formats in Word1m 23s
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