MS Word Mail Merge- Exercise of Appliance Store

Maureen's Marvelous Appliances
123 Main Street
Cranford, NJ 07016
(908) 233-4567
www.MarvelousAppliance.com

Date

Block Header with customer's name, company name and address (comes from data source)

Dear Mrs. or Mrs. Customer Contact Name: (comes from data source)

Thank you for purchasing whatever-they-bought on whatever-the-date-of-sale. I hope the whatever-they-bought is functioning to your satisfaction. Should there ever be a problem please contact us because we have a full service repair department.

Yours truly,

Your name

Put in data for 2 or 3 funny customers at a factious address and products such as washing machines or laser printers, etc. and factious, but realistic, dates like June 4, 2006 or 12/30/06.

Use the Mail Merge wizard and add field(s) needed to write a custom letter to each prospective employer using the position for which they advertised.

Show off your word processing skills:

	change font size and type face by making each line of your letterhead a different font, size, color, etc...be creative
	put the whole thing in a nice page border
	add a footnote
	make the Date Italics
	shade the a paragraph
	add a piece of clip art if you like

Upload the two documents to your briefcase and send me an email to go look at them in your briefcase.
or attach both documents (form letter and data source) to an email.

Print out

the form letter with the field names in chevrons «»

one resulting letter

the data source

create an Access report or

display recipients, scrape the screen and paste it into a Word doc