Differentiate merging to new document and print document approaches in mail Marge
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Mail merge is a process to create
personalised letters and pre-addressed
envelopes or mailing labels for mass
mailings from a form letter.The 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). The feature
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, and Microsoft Word
added it later on.
The data source is typically a
spreadsheet or a database which has a
field or column for each variable in the
template. When the mail merge process
is run, the word processing system
creates an output document for each
row in the database, using the fixed text
exactly as it appears.
personalised letters and pre-addressed
envelopes or mailing labels for mass
mailings from a form letter.The 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). The feature
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, and Microsoft Word
added it later on.
The data source is typically a
spreadsheet or a database which has a
field or column for each variable in the
template. When the mail merge process
is run, the word processing system
creates an output document for each
row in the database, using the fixed text
exactly as it appears.
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