The document provides step-by-step instructions for using the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word 2013 to produce personalized form letters. It outlines 20 steps to complete the mail merge process, including creating a main document and recipient list, inserting address and greeting fields, previewing the merged letters, and printing the completed documents. The mail merge allows a bulk letter to be personalized for each recipient by drawing individual data like names and addresses from a separate list.
The document provides step-by-step instructions for using the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word 2013 to produce personalized form letters. It outlines 20 steps to complete the mail merge process, including creating a main document and recipient list, inserting address and greeting fields, previewing the merged letters, and printing the completed documents. The mail merge allows a bulk letter to be personalized for each recipient by drawing individual data like names and addresses from a separate list.
The document provides step-by-step instructions for using the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word 2013 to produce personalized form letters. It outlines 20 steps to complete the mail merge process, including creating a main document and recipient list, inserting address and greeting fields, previewing the merged letters, and printing the completed documents. The mail merge allows a bulk letter to be personalized for each recipient by drawing individual data like names and addresses from a separate list.
The document provides step-by-step instructions for using the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word 2013 to produce personalized form letters. It outlines 20 steps to complete the mail merge process, including creating a main document and recipient list, inserting address and greeting fields, previewing the merged letters, and printing the completed documents. The mail merge allows a bulk letter to be personalized for each recipient by drawing individual data like names and addresses from a separate list.
Using the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word 2013
To Produce Personalized Form Letters
You may find that you need to send the same letter to several different people. Though the bulk of text in the letter may be the same for all the recipients, each letter may need unique information, such as the inside address or the salutation. Creating personalized form letters is an easy task when you use the Mail Merge Wizard in Microsoft Word. To complete this task, you will need a computer with Microsoft Word 2013 installed and a printer. Before you start, create and save a letter that contains all of the text you want to send to every recipient. This letter will serve as the main document for your mail merge.
1. With your main document open,
click Start Mail Merge on the Mailings tab.
2. Select Step-by-Step Mail Merge
Wizard from the dropdown menu.
This will bring up the Mail Merge
navigation pane along the right side of your document (referred to as navigation pane in the remainder of this document).
3. Verify that Letters is selected as
the document type in the navigation pane and then click Next: Starting document.
4. Confirm that Use the Current Document is selected as the starting
document in the navigation pane and click Next: Select recipients at the bottom of the navigation pane.
5. Choose Type a New List under
Select Recipients, then click Create in the navigation pane.
Word opens the New Address List
dialog box.
6. Enter address list data for your
letter recipients in the fields in the New Address List dialog box. Press the Tab key to move from field to field until all data for the first recipient has been entered. Leave fields empty for which you do not have recipient data (i.e. Address Line 2) by tabbing to the next field.
7. Click New Entry to enter
additional recipients to the address list. When all entries are complete, click OK.
Word opens the Save Address List
dialog box.
8. Enter a file name for your
address list in the Save Address List dialog box and click Save.
Word Opens the Mail Merge
Recipients dialog box.
9. Click OK in the Mail Merge
Recipients dialog box.
10. Click Next: Write your letter
at the bottom of the navigation pane.
11. Place insertion point 2 lines
below the date in your letter and click Address Block in the navigation pane.
Word opens the Insert Address
Block dialog box.
12. Preview the displayed address
and click OK.
Word inserts an address field in
your main document.
13. Press the enter key twice to
move the insertion point to the salutation line and click Greeting line in the navigation pane.
Word opens the Insert Greeting
dialog box.
14. Preview the greeting and click
OK.
15. Click Next: Preview your letters
at the bottom of the navigation pane.
16. Preview your letters using the
double arrow buttons in the navigation pane, and then click Next: Complete the Merge at the bottom of the navigation pane.
17. Click Edit individual letters.
Word opens the Merge to New
Document dialog box.
18. Confirm that All is selected in
the Merge to New Document dialog box and Click OK.
Word opens a new document that
contains your merged letters.
19. In the new document, make any
desired edits to personalize the individual letters, then click the File tab and select Print to access the print menu.
Word opens the print preview
dialog box.
20. Adjust print settings as desired,
then click Print to send the document to the printer.
Congratulations! You have produced a set of personalized form letters using the Microsoft Word Mail Merge Wizard.
For More Information
For troubleshooting or information on other tasks that can be performed with the Mail Merge Wizard, such as using Mail Merge to send email, or producing mailing labels and envelopes, please see https://support.office.com/en-us/word.