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You would do this by dragging the relevant placeholder into the document. For example, you may want to write Dear “clients name”. You can merge fields into your document here to personalise it.

In the main Word document write out your email.

Select “Create New” and choose “Form Letters” if you want to send an email.

The Mail Merge Manager will then open.

Open word, choose a new blank document.

Email should be in the first column and each other column with information will need a relevant heading.

Make sure your Excel document is set up correctly.

Restart your computer (for some reason I needed to restart before it seemed to remember my preferences).

You can co this by going to “Mail” (the Apple mailbox with the eagle on it) and selecting Preferences – General –Default Email Reader – Outlook.

Make sure your default mail setting is “Outlook”.

It is very important that you have this set up correctly with email in the FIRST column. Whatever fields you have in this file are the fields you will be able to merge into your document.

So you might have columns that read Email, First Name, Surname etc. This file should be set up with headings in each column with the first column being email. All data that will be “merged” into the email is taken from an excel file. Mail merge emails are written and managed from Word, not from Outlook. Step by step guide on how to do a mail merge email with office for Macįirst, some basic principles on mail merge emails for those who aren’t familiar. After many moments of frustration and endless Google searching on guides for how to do a mail merge email with office for Mac I’ve finally worked it out!!

It’s something I have been struggling to work out for the last week and I couldn’t find a good guide anywhere so decided to write my own. So this probably seems like a rather random topic for the blog but given I do write a lot about being organised, I felt this (sort of) fitted the bill. Said reader writes: I am looking for a way to do an e-mail merge using Outlook 2011 (or even Entourage. A reader who wishes to remain anonymous seeks a way to create form letters with Office 2011. To insert the current date and/or time into your document go the Insert tab of the Ribbon and select Date & Time from the Text group. For end-to-end mail merge steps, see Use Word mail merge for email, Mail merge for labels, or Use mail merge to personalize letters. The steps shown here also apply to Word 2007 & 2010.

In this tutorial learn to create Mail Merge Letters in Microsoft Word 2013/2016.