Hi: Hope the below will help you. <smile> CREATE A SIMPLE FORM LETTER AND PERFORM A MAIL MERGE In this example I am going to tell how to create a simple form letter and Perform a mail merge. Now I realize that there are many styles of letters, Therefore, your style of letter may be different. The main point of this is just to Illustrate how to use the mail merge in Word XP. LET US START OUR NEW DOCUMENT WITH OUR RETURN ADDRESS First let us press control R to right justify our return address. Then just type your name and address lines. Press the Enter key twice to add two blank lines. To insert the date, go to the Insert Menu and enter on Date and Time. In the Date and Time box, arrow down to the format you want. Tab and for a form letter, check the box That says, "Update automatically". You want the date to change every time you Open the document for a form letter. Tab and enter on okay. Press control L to return to left justify. We don't need to input the inside address or the salutation because the Mail Merge will do it for us. Press the Enter key twice to add two blank lines. Type the body of your letter Press the Enter Key twice to add two more blank lines. Type a closing, then enter several times, and type your name. You have completed your letter. NOW LET US DO THE MAIL MERGE PART Go to the tools menu and enter on letter and mailings. Now enter on Mail merge wizard. This will place you in the task pane for the Mail merge wizard. You can move between the task pane and your document with the f6 key. In the task pane, the radio button for letters will be Selected, so just tab to next and press the space bar. In this dialog, the use the current document radio button will be selected. Tab to next and press the space bar. You will be on the use an existing list radio button. If you had already created a list, you could open the file with this option. (Alternatively, you can arrow down to select from outlook contacts. This is for if you Use Microsoft Outlook's address book, not outlook express), Arrow down once more to type a new list. We are going to create a new list of people we want to send our letter. Tab to create and press the space bar. The new address list dialog will come up. The first filed is for title for example Mr. or Mrs. Then just tab to fill in the fields for things like name and address. When you are done with an entry, press alt N for a new contact. When you are done entering names, tab to close and press the space bar. A save dialog will come up, give it a filename and enter on save. THE MAIL MERGE RECIPIENTS DIALOG WILL BEGIN We want to select everyone in our list of names we created, so just tab to select all and Press the space bar. Then tab to okay and pres the space bar to leave the mail merge recipients Dialog. Tab to next in the task pane and press the space bar. Press f6 to be placed back in your document with our letter. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE GOING TO TELL WORD WHERE TO INSERT OUR MAIL MERGE FIELDS. So go to the place in the document where you want to insert a Mail merge field. For example, go to the line where you would insert a salutation such as Dear Terrill Reynolds. You will do the same with their address in the appropriate place in the Document. Press f6 to move back to the task pane. Tab to more items and press the space bar. The Insert merge fields dialog will come up with list of available merge Fields in a list. Just enter on the fields you want to insert into the Document and Keep repeating this process until you have inserted the mail merge fields You want in the document at the location where you want them. Once you enter on a field in the insert merge fields dialog, you have to TAB To "close" and press the SPACEBAR or you need to tap the ESCAPE KEY to be returned to your document. Note: each time you want to enter another merge Field, you will need to activate the "more items" option in the task pane. Remember you can switch back and forth between your task pane and your document with the f6 key. ONCE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING SET UP THE WAY YOU WANT When you have everything set up the way you want and have added all your Mail merge fields to your document, tab to next in the task pane and press the space bar. In this dialog, you could preview your letters but let us do that later. So just, tab to next and press the space bar. You are on print and you could print them at this time, but let's Review them. So arrow down to edit individual letters and press the space Bar. The merge to new document dialog will come up with the all radio button Selected, just press space bar on okay. Now you can review the letters and all the information should have been Inserted correctly and their should be a letter for each person you entered. TO PRINT THE LETTERS To print the letters just go back to the task pane with f6 and choose the print Option. HTH Sincerely, Terrill Reynolds ---------- Email: Terrill1@xxxxxxxx Windows Messenger:terrillreynolds36@xxxxxxxxxxx Yahoo:terrillreynolds AIM:terrill36 PH:(910)842-7701 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Williams" <Williams_S_A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:55 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] JAWS & Mail Merge Hi All, I am using JAWS 8 and Microsoft Office 2003. Basically, I want to know how to use the mail merge function in Word 2003. Where can I get complete info on how to use mail merge? In particular, how do I select the location in the document to place the inserted merged fields? Does it work the same in all versions of word? 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