mail merge
Printing customized form letters. A common feature of a word processor, it uses a letter and a name and address list. In the letter, Dear A: Thank you for ordering B from our C store..., A, B and C are merge points into which data are inserted from the list. See variable data printing, field squeeze and line squeeze. |
| The Mail Merge |
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| The mail merge inserts the fields from the database into the predefined merge points in the form letter. |
mail merge [′māl ‚mərj]
(computer science)
The process of combining a form letter with a list of names and addresses to produce individualized letters.
| (messaging) | mail merge - A function of some word processing software
(e.g. Microsoft Word) that produces multiple instances of a
document by substituting different text strings from a
database in place of certain field markers. This is often
done with envelopes, resumes, spam, and various other mass
mailings. http://mtroyal.ab.ca/programs/academserv/ADC/workshops/staff/mail_merge/mail_merge_tutorial.html. |
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