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Perform a mail merge with Outlook contacts

Perform a mail merge with Outlook contacts

From the course: The Best of Word Tips Weekly

Perform a mail merge with Outlook contacts

- [Instructor] Many Microsoft Word users also use Microsoft Outlook. And if you use Outlook to store contact information, you can use that contact information here in Microsoft Word when performing what we call a mail merge. That's what we're going to explore in this week's Word Tip. And we're going to start with a new blank document here in Microsoft Word. If you're going to use Outlook Contacts to create form letters, labels, envelopes for example, you'll wanna make sure that in the contacts in Outlook you're storing the appropriate information like names, addresses, even telephone numbers perhaps if you wanna be able to use that in your mail merge. If you are storing that information, it's easily accessible right from within Word. We don't even have to open up Outlook. So let's say we wanted to send out a form letter to some of our contacts that are stored in Outlook. Well the first thing you might wanna do, before you even start creating the letter you're going to write to them…

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