Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Although a lot of writing is done over email these days, it’s still common to need to write old-fashioned letters in bulk. Microsoft Word makes this easy to do, using a mail merge that pulls address information from Microsoft Excel.
In a hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up a mail merge template in Microsoft Word, set up address information in Excel, and then how to merge them together into a new document.
00:00 – Overviewing the letter and Excel workbook
00:42 – Starting the mail merge and selecting recipient list from Excel
02:06 – Inserting mail merge fields
02:56 – Previewing mail merge data
03:48 – Finishing the mail merge to a new document
Although a lot of writing is done over email these days, it’s still common to need to write old-fashioned letters in bulk. Microsoft Word makes this easy to do, using a mail merge that pulls address information from Microsoft Excel.
In a hands-on tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up a mail merge template in Microsoft Word, set up address information in Excel, and then how to merge them together into a new document.
00:00 – Overviewing the letter and Excel workbook
00:42 – Starting the mail merge and selecting recipient list from Excel
02:06 – Inserting mail merge fields
02:56 – Previewing mail merge data
03:48 – Finishing the mail merge to a new document
