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Create a new data source for mail merge

Create a new data source for mail merge

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Create a new data source for mail merge

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- [Instructor] IF the variable data that you want to use for your mail merge does not exist in an electronic format you can create a new data source for mail merge right here from Word. In the mailings tab under select recipients choose type a new list and we get a new address list that has the type of columns you would expect to have in a basic mail merge, title, first name, last name. We also have email address out here at the end and a work phone number. If you wish, you can customize these columns. So if for example I don't want to track titles because I don't have them and I probably won't have them I can simply delete title, and it says if this data source had some data in it, which it clearly doesn't any information in the field will also be deleted. Clearly this is a dialogue box that is a standard dialogue box any time we delete any of these items. If we wanted to rearrange them we can. In my list, company…

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