Microsoft Word: Using Mail Merge

Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Tuesday 15 July 2025

Times: 13.30 to 15.00

Key details: Learn skills to create customised letters, emails and labels for mass mailings. (town-centre classroom)

This course presumes a good working knowledge of Word and in particular Word styles as covered in the Advanced Document Management course for Word.

This course is aimed at users who want to create form letters, customised emails and label sheets in Word.

Skills include:

understanding the structure of mail merge and data documents
setting up a mail merge from data sources in Word, Excel or Access
understanding and using merge fields
creating form letters and labels from lists
using advanced features such as conditional rules to add additional content
using mail merge with Outlook to send personalised emails
techniques to send grouped information (for example, multiple records per person)

Comments from previous participants:

The course is delivered very clearly and the presenter manages to cover a great deal of content in such a short space of time.
I will be able to send communications to groups of students more effectively.
Excellent overview of the features.
It was great to learn how to create letters, labels and emails for many recipients at one time.
Very useful when dealing with bulk data.

NOTE: These are in-classroom sessions held at the stated venue.

Sonny Evans

Butts Wynd 01 Computer Classroom