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Using Your Contacts List in a Mail Merge

If you have a substantial number of individuals in your Outlook Contacts list, you can use that list as the data source for your mail merge in Word or Publisher. Using your Contacts list as your data source is especially efficient if the list contains detailed contact information, including complete addresses; or if you’re creating a mail merge that will be distributed via e-mail.

Create a Mail Merge Using Your Contacts List

1. In Word or Publisher, create the document or the publication that you want to use as the basis for your mail merge.

2. Start the mail merge. In Word, on the Mailings tab, click the Start ...