This week's Word project....

Professor Ritt wasn't kidding when she said that the assignments would get more challenging. We learn how to merge letters AND labels in this chapter, as well as how to create a directory. Now I've done stuff like this before, but this was in business school about 13 years ago, and we never did the projects that we're doing now.

But it's interesting, because the question Professor Ritt posed to us was: Do you see a need for use of the mail merge feature where you work or will you see a need for mail merge in the future (or the merging of different records)? And I can think of a few uses now.

For instance, when we have to send out letters for camps, scholarships, or different registrations, instead of using a form letter, we could do a merge with the names of the recipients and their addresses. And we could also use the merge feature for households where either the parents or the children have signed up separately, instead of as household members.