APPLIED PRODUCTIVITY
TOOLS
EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY
• It is used to automatically add mailings
addresses or personalized information to
your publication
• The feature is usually employed in a word
processing document which contains fixed
text (which is the same in each output
document) and variables (which act as
placeholders that are replaced by the text
from the
data source/database
• Is an organized collection of data model
aspects of reality in a way that supports
processes enquiring information.
• The data is use to replace placeholders
throughout your message with the relevant
information for each individual you are
messaging. You can use it to quickly create
personalized messages for hundreds of
people at once.
Benefit of Mail Merge
Once the merge has been set up, thousands of letters can be
produced very quickly
Much easier to proof read just one letter than thousands of
individual letters
A standard letter can be saved and reused
CREATING A MAIL MERGE