Microsoft Word: Working efficiently with the mail merge function

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Working with Microsoft Office: Word's mail merge function allows documents, letters or emails to be sent efficiently and automatically to a large number of recipients, including personalized salutations and text modules. Various examples are used to illustrate the process of address management, printing and sending by email in order to send the letter to selected addressees or to create labels and envelopes with addressees from Word, Excel or Outlook. Benefit from practical tips and tricks for practical use.

Types and structure of form letters

Mail merge wizard.
Main document, mail merge fields, placeholders.
Create, test and print mail merge.

Create data sources

Working with address files.

Sorting and filtering data records

Know and define criteria for sorting.
Filter data records.
Use AND and OR operations.

Set rules and conditions

Condition fields, nested if-conditions and rules.
Position text.
Define and arrange mail merge fields.
Numbering and breaks in serial letters.

Create and import data sources

Control files from text or Excel tables.

Special output formats and print formats

Labels, envelopes, directories or e-mails.

Professional tips and tricks

Tips and tricks for using Microsoft Copilot

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In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

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René Pukall

Götz Sattler

Valentin Wider

Methods

Expert input, practical tasks and exercises.

Please use a notebook with the Microsoft Office program for Windows (version 2016/2019/2021/O365) installed.

We recommend working with two screens so that you can participate in the training in the best possible way.

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Anyone who works with Microsoft Word 2016/2019/2021/O365 or the corresponding Microsoft Office versions for Windows and would like to use the mail merge function more efficiently in the future.

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