I Want to Bypass Mail Merge Manager, but wantto Merge a Word document with fields in an Excelspreads

[snimils]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I have always found the merge managers created by Microsoft clumsy to use and usually bypass the "wizards" of late. By selecting merge documents and then immediately going to "select data list" I can pretty much get things done quickly and efficiently.

I am now a new Mac user and trying to use Office for Macs cannot find a way around the Mail Merge Manager.

Does any one have any suggestions?

I have my letter built and my spreadsheet ready to go. All I need to do is drop in some field names from the spreadsheet to the Word document and let the merge fairies do their magic.

Any suggestions are most welcome!

Thank you.

 

[Kenneth Cohen]

I believe the only way is to use the mail merge manager. It works pretty
well, I use it regularly. Use it to create your merge document, including
specifying the data source, then save it. In the future, if the data is
always in the same data file, you can just reopen the template and print it,
as long as you want a document printed for every record (because the default
is all records). If you only want a subset of records, you'll need the
manager to specify this. As I said, it's easy to use and to understand once
you get the hang of it.