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Have you ever wished that you could do an email Mail Merge with PDF attachments as the merged results? There are a variety of reasons you may want to do this. Maybe you would like to send individual PDF letters to students via email attachment, or perhaps you want to have a partially completed PDF form that is personalized for each person you are emailing. The possibilities are endless! By the way, big thanks to Julie and Meghan for having an awesome question in last week’s Word session that has inspired this Byte!

Background

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  • Also, for these exercises, I am assuming you have some experience with Mail Merge in Word. If you have never merged before, or are not comfortable with the process, please come attend my Microsoft Word Essentials training! You will be comfortable with it in no time.

Steps to Convert PDF to Excel with online2pdf. Go to the official website, upload PDFs files that you want to convert to Excel on mac. Microsoft Excel Worksheet via Converter will convert your worksheet into a Word document. How you can use MS Query to merge from two Excel files in a single mail merge. Specifications for using a text file as. Add characters, remove strings, split cells, extract text, trim spaces, convert symbols, change case, count chars and swap text — the tool lets you do all this quickly and accurately. Feel free to use in Excel for Mac as well as in Excel for Windows and Excel on the web. Leading zeros—for example, 00399—in codes are dropped during a mail merge if they're not formatted as text. Choose the column that contains the ZIP Codes, postal codes, or other data to be formatted. Go to Home, and in the Number group, select the Number Format box down arrow, and then choose an option in the list (such as Text).

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  • A reader asked how to convert an Excel workbook into a PowerPoint presentation where the first column was a title page and the next two columns were the subtitles. This sounded to me like a Mail Merge problem, and indeed Word proved a bridge to getting this done. This is a circuitous solution but avoids using any VBA code.
  • I would be glad to help. There area a number of tools that can convert just text or the file itself for any version of Microsoft Excel. Before I can provide the best tool though, I will need to get a better understanding of the file you are using, and how you are doing the mail merge.

Exercise Files

Here are a couple files for experimentation, if you would liketo follow along:

  • Sample Letter Word Document: this is your file that you would like to turn into a merged PDF for recipients. This is a fictional letter for potential students.
  • Mail Merge Database Excel File: this is a fictional database for linking to the merge document.
  • Important: you should save these both to your desktop before starting, since you will have to browse to find the Excel file when merging.

Creating the Merge

You will start this merge like any other email merge:

1. Open the Sample Letter Word file.

2. Go to Mailings tab and select Start Mail Merge

3. Select Letters

4. Select Recipients and browse for the Excel file

5. Insert Merge Fields as desired. I am going to insert:

  • Address block
  • Greeting line, and
  • Interest field

Work Offline

In real life, this is an optional step when doing an emailmerge, but I will ask you to do it this time, since we are working with fakeemail accounts, and you probably don’t want to receive a bunch of bounce backemails. When you work Offline in Outlook, it allows you the opportunity toreview your email merge before going back online and sending them.

  • In Outlook, go to the send/receive tab and select Work Offline.

Finish and Merge

1. Instead of going to Finish and Merge, like we usually do, we are going to select Merge to Adobe PDF.

2. In the popup screen:

  • Specify a name for your PDF
  • Check the box next to Automatically send Adobe PDF files by Email. Email data will populate by default, but that is something that could be changed if the wrong column is selected.
  • Type in a special email Message, if desired.
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  • Press Ok

3. Select a location to save the merged PDF files. This creates separate PDFs for each of the merge results, for your records.

If there you don’t see a location that will work, notice you can also create a new folder in the lower left.

Double Check Results

  1. Open your Outlook.
  2. Since you are working Offline, these files are going to be sitting in your Outbox. You should see a number on the left side of your screen next to Outbox. Click on the Outbox to access the folder.

3. You will see a list of emails. Double click on any of them and take a look at the email that is set to send. You will see your message, subject line, and a PDF attachment.

4. Double click on the attachment. Here is the letter you wanted to send, as a PDF attachment.

5. The individual PDFs are also living wherever you chose to store them on the previous section, step 3.

Work Online

Don’t forget that you need to go back online again with yourOutlook! When you go back online, all of the emails in your outbox are going tosend automatically, and in this case (with our fake emails) is not a good idea.

  1. Click on the red X to the right of of each ofthe emails to delete them.
  2. When you are finished, revisit the Send/Receive tab and toggle off the Work Offline button to go back onlineagain.

Thoughts?

Will you use this in your area? I would love to hear how youplan to use this tool!

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Mail Merge For Mac From Excel To Word

You can use an Excel workbook as your Word 2011 mail merge data source in Office 2011 for Mac. Get ready by preparing an Excel workbook with a data range or table that’s set up as a mailing list and a new, blank document in Word.

Create Mail Merge From Excel

To make labels from Excel or another database, take the following steps:

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  1. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Select Document Type and then choose Create New→Labels.

  2. From the Label Products pop-up menu, choose the product.

  3. From the Product Number list, select the correct number for your labels.

  4. Click OK to close the Label Options dialog.

    A table appears. Don’t make any adjustments to the table or click in the table. The insertion cursor should be blinking in the upper-leftmost cell, which will be the only empty cell in the table. You may have to drag the bottom scroll bar to see the blinking cursor. Section 1 of Mail Merge Manager now displays the name of the Main Document and which type of merge you’re performing.

  5. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Select Recipients List and then choose Get List→Open Data Source.

  6. Navigate to the Excel (.xlsx) workbook you’re using as the data source and click Open.

  7. Select the worksheet or range that has the names and addresses for the data source, and then click OK.

    Your Word mail merge document is now linked to the worksheet or data range data source in the Excel workbook. The Edit Labels dialog appears.

  8. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Edit Labels.

    When the Edit Labels dialog opens, you see an empty Sample Label with a blinking insertion cursor.

  9. Click the Insert Merge Field pop-up menu and choose the field that will be on the left of the top row of the label.

  10. To add more lines to your label, press Return or Enter and then select another field from the Insert Merge Field pop-up menu.

    Do not click the Insert Postal Bar Code button. The U.S. Post Office changed how it generates postal bar codes, and Word doesn’t conform to the new specification.

  11. Click OK to close the Edit Labels dialog.

    You return to your Word document, and your table grid is now filled with a whole bunch of field names in chevrons. Step 3 of Mail Merge Manager opens, but don’t use anything from Mail Merge Manager Step 3 because the Edit Labels dialog takes care of inserting placeholders when making mail merge labels. Step 2 of Mail Merge Manager now shows the filename of the data source document.

  12. (Optional) In the Mail Merge Manager, click Filter Recipients.

    Filter data and order records.

  13. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Preview Results.

  14. In the Mail Merge Manager, click Complete Merge.

    You’re done!