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Friday, January 30, 2009 // 2:40 PM
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark TwainMr. Case taught us today in class abought Mail Merge. Since he wasn't going to be here on Monday, he taught us it all today.
Bascically we are going to create a letter that can be sent to multiple people at once with different pieces of info inserted into each place. This is something that a large company would use to address all their customers simply by inserting a customer's data into an already created template. At first I was quite confused about what we were doing but I definitely realized to usefulness of this later on. Instead of writing a new letter each time, you simply have to create a basic letter with data entry spots and then create data files for each of your recipients. I know it sounds quite complicated the way I explain it but trust me, it's much more basic than you may think.
For example, here's a basic template you could have:
Dear < First Name >,
You have been qualified for a new credit card! If you accept, the credit card will be mailed to your current address, which is < Address >. Thank you for being a valuable customer!
Sincerely,
Bank Manager
I'm pretty sure your parents get letters like that all the time from advertisers, companies, telemarketers and more. It is not one person typing a letter formally to you but rather someone simply typing out a fairly general template and inserting your name through it from a mailing list with your data on it.
This is quite useful for sending multiple letters to multiple people! So make sure to remember this handing task as I am positive it will come to use in the future!
Goodbye for now,
- Serena
Labels: Mail, Merge, Microsoft, Word