|Microsoft Word offers rudimentary data management tools to support tasks such as generating mailing labels and form letters.|5445|3180|1215|3105||0|0|0|0|
|Working with a mail merge illustrates how Word handles data files. A mail merge combines a form letter with a list of names and addresses to create a series of personalized letters. As an example, suppose a non-profit organization wants to send thank you letters to people who donated to the Save our Manatees Fund.|5250|2460|1920|4140||0|0|0|0|
|The main document for the mail merge contains field names, such as <<Title>> and <<Address>>. Word can automatically fill in these fields with data from a file of donors.|4740|3075|1695|2760||0|0|0|0|
|Filtering allows you to specify records that you want to include in the merge process. For example, you could filter records so that your mail merge goes only to donors in New York.|7185|4860|1785|2670||0|0|0|0|
|Mail merge illustrated Word's capability for working with data. As you discovered in the tour, Word allows you to work with data arranged in tables or forms. You can add records, modify data, filter records, and sort them. So keep Word in mind if you want to work with simple data tables--especially if you want to use the data for mailing labels or form letters.|4575|2340|2355|3675||0|0|0|0|
