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Mail merge
Mail merge consists of combining mail and letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a form letter.
This 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 text from the data source word to word).
Some word processors can insert content from a database, spreadsheet, or table into text documents.
It is a tool for writing a "personalized" letter or e-mail to many people at the same time. It imports data from another source such as a spreadsheet and then uses that to replace placeholders throughout the message with the relevant information for each individual that is being messaged.
Mail merge dates back to early word processors on personal computers, circa 1980. WordStar was perhaps the earliest to provide this, originally via an ancillary program called Mail merge. WordPerfect also offered this capacity for CP/M and MS-DOS systems; Microsoft Word added it later on, as did Multimate.
Money can be saved by pre-sorting on zip code and grouping by postal-discount requirements (same ZIP code, same SCF). [citation needed]
A paperless approach is to use mail merge to format email.
Going beyond words, in 2018 The New York Times detailed a further instance of "mass customization" - personalized videos.[relevant?]
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Mail merge
Mail merge consists of combining mail and letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a form letter.
This 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 text from the data source word to word).
Some word processors can insert content from a database, spreadsheet, or table into text documents.
It is a tool for writing a "personalized" letter or e-mail to many people at the same time. It imports data from another source such as a spreadsheet and then uses that to replace placeholders throughout the message with the relevant information for each individual that is being messaged.
Mail merge dates back to early word processors on personal computers, circa 1980. WordStar was perhaps the earliest to provide this, originally via an ancillary program called Mail merge. WordPerfect also offered this capacity for CP/M and MS-DOS systems; Microsoft Word added it later on, as did Multimate.
Money can be saved by pre-sorting on zip code and grouping by postal-discount requirements (same ZIP code, same SCF). [citation needed]
A paperless approach is to use mail merge to format email.
Going beyond words, in 2018 The New York Times detailed a further instance of "mass customization" - personalized videos.[relevant?]