From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth

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What email merge can do for you

What email merge can do for you

From the course: Word: Mail Merge in Depth

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What email merge can do for you

- [Instructor] I believe email merge is one of the best tools in the mail merge toolbox. We create email merges the same way that we create any other mail merge. However, it requires that we use Microsoft Outlook as our means of sending email messages. If, for example, you are a Gmail user, then email merge in Word is not going to work for you, because you need the Outlook engine to drive delivery, but assuming that you use Outlook, even if you only use it when you're going to do an email merge, you're good to go, because we're going to create a message in exactly the same way that we created our message in Microsoft Word. We'll have our variable information, we'll take that email message, and we'll mesh it up with a data source, and the data source could be Microsoft Excel or any other data source that we looked at previously. And we end up having personalized emails, an email to Michelle, an email to Neru, and so on.…

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