

One of the perennial annoyances of Mail Merge is its inability to format numbers from an Excel spreadsheet correctly. Unfortunately, the task of learning to master all of its idiosyncrasies can give you countless headaches.

Once you learn how to use it, you can save countless hours of work. It is extremely powerful for creating labels and customized letters, emails, or reports. The Mail Merge feature of Microsoft Word is one of my favorite parts of the program. Each placeholder corresponds to one entry such as first name, last name, salutation, city etc. In essence, when you mail merge labels from Excel to Word, the column headers of your Excel sheet become placeholders in a Word document denoting the mail merge fields.
