12.7.2 Mail Merge Part 2 - Using the Mail Merge Tool
May/25/2009
Follow these steps to create Mail Merge documents
with Tradepoints Mail Merge Tool. The document template used in this
example was created with Word 2007.
First a contact search has to be done for the selected recipients.
1. Choose the section of contacts that a search will be generated from.
This example brings up search results from Sources using a general
search with the starting letters being 'Be'.

These Search results will then be brought into the Mail Merge Tool.

The first screen in the Mail Merge Tool introduces a wizard to walk through
the steps of putting together a Merged Document. The second screen will show the
options available from the Document Templates. (This is where any
Word templates with the merge fields created and saved under Document Templates
can be used)
Available Document templates will be visible listed at the top of the
screen. A field to browse and determine where what the resulting document
will be located and named is highlighted.

Click Next once the resulting merge document has been named and a location
has been specified.

The search results specified at the very beginning will appear here.
1. Search results can be unchecked at this point.
2. An option can be set
for the Mail Merge document to be saved as a Call Log to track who was included
in the Mail Merge. Any results will be track able through the contacts
information under Call Logs.
Click Next when ready.

The next option will ask to specify which contacts within your search
results. If you are not sure then choose from either 'All Staff Members' or
'Primary Contact Only'.
This option allows for specific contacts within B2B contacts to be chosen.
For groups using the B2C contact option 'All Staff Members' will automatically
bring in each contact's information into Mail Merge.
Clicking next will give a screen showing a progress bar across the page.
Depending on how many contacts are in the mail merge will depend on how long
this takes.

When finished the results page will appear. An option to Save the Mail Merge
Document as a Document accessible to everyone under the Home tab is on the lower
left.

To view the Mail Merged document click the icon in the middle of the
screen.
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