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<nowiki></nowiki>'''Mail merge''' is a [[software]] function describing the production of multiple (and potentially large numbers of) [[document]]s from a single [[Template (word processing)|template]] form and a structured [[Database|data source]]. This helps to create personalized [[Letter (message)|letters]] and pre-addressed [[envelope]]s or mailing labels for mass mailings from a [[word processor|word processing]] document which contains fixed [[plain text|text]], which will be the same in each output document, and variables, which act as placeholders that are replaced by text from the data source. The data source is typically a [[spreadsheet]] or a [[database]] which has a field or column matching each variable in the template. When the mail merge is run, the word processing system creates an output document for each row in the database, using the fixed text exactly as it appears in the template, but substituting the data variables in the template with the values from the matching columns. |
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This technique of merging data to create [[Mailshot|mailshots]] gave rise to the term mail merge... |
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==See also== |
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*[[Comparison of word processors#Characteristics|Word processors with mail merge capability]] |
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[[Category:Word processors|*]] |
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Revision as of 15:51, 1 October 2009
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