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Using Outlook Contacts with Mail Merge
Part 4: Previewing Your Documents
 More of this Feature
• Part 1: Setting up the Main Document
• Part 2: Selecting Recipients
• Part 3: Inserting Merge Fields
• Part 5: Finalizing the Merge
 
 Related Terms
• Mail Merge
• Data Source
• Record
 
 Related Resources
• Word Tutorials
• Intro to Mail Merge
• Excel and Mail Merge
 

The letters will appear in the document area, the field names replaced by the data from your data source. You can use the navigation buttons on the Mail merge Wizard pane to flip through the letters:



You can make any changes you want to the document. Remember that if you make a change, you are not changing an individual letter – you are changing the main document and it will affect all the letters once they are merged. You will have the option of changing individual letters in the next step before you print them.

When you are done previewing your document, Click Next: Complete the merge:







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