Course Overview
If you haven't used mail merge lately, this half-day seminar may be for you. Mail merge is not only easier, but now it can be used to automate mass mailings through e-mail by using Outlook's Contact list. This course will also cover foolproof ways of working with databases; creating form letters, envelopes, and labels; and troubleshooting common mail merge mistakes. In only half a day you can learn what office automation really means.
Prerequisite(s)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word.
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Understand how mail merge works to get desired results
- Set up a document for a mass mailing and perform a basic mail merge
- Perform a more complex mail merge to merge several unique elements into a set of otherwise identical documents
- Use a variety of data sources, including Outlook and Access, with mail merge
- Customize the appearance of an envelope and print it
- Create labels and print them
- Edit the label layout to match label sheet format
- Analyze and fix mail merge errors
Effective as of Winter 2005
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