For our purposes we’ll choose Form Letters. Click Create New in the first step and you’ll see that you have the option to create a form letter, label, envelope, or catalog. This window contains six steps, all of which you march through in order to create your document. A small Mail Merge Manager window will appear. And you do it this way in Word 2011.Ĭhoose Tools > Mail Merge Manager. Rather, you create mail merge documents within Microsoft Word. The first step to creating a successful form-letter is understanding that Outlook has nothing to do with designing the thing. For the sake of convenience I’ll pull portions of that column (in italics) into this one and answer as I go. Thanks for allowing me the chance to revisit this topic, particularly as it lets me answer some outstanding questions that followed it. When I tried this the letters went to Outlook’s Drafts folders and not to its Outbox as you suggested.How do you maintain a letter format within the resulting email message?.How do you insert an email address from Outlook rather than Apple’s Contacts application?.Thanks for your mail merge and Office 2011 article, which I followed to near success. Twitter follower Toby Sax is anxious for me to revisit an old Mac 911 column that lays out the steps for creating mail merged documents in Microsoft Word.
