Talk:Mail merge

Tutorials
There's a couple of very good tutorial articles for mail merge using Microsoft Word and Excel at Clear-Cut Computing.-- Clearcut369 (talk) 17:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

How to take mail merge Sandhya S R (talk) 00:21, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Mailshot
Can someone provide a definition of a mailshot? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LegalTech (talk • contribs) 22:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * mailshot. I'll go wikilink it now. superlusertc 2009 March 21, 21:50 (UTC)


 * Proposed merge to Advertising mail, discussion at Talk:Mailshot. Si Trew (talk) 12:07, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Comparison Table
Considering the number of mailmerge programs and their differing capabilities and costs is there some reason no table exists showing their benefits and shortcomings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.225.52.80 (talk) 16:52, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Origination of term "MailMerge"/"Mail Merge"
I would like to challenge the unsubstantiated assertion of originality by MultiMate. MultiMate was later to market than WordStar (it ran on PC-DOS, which came after the CP/M OS on which WordStar first ran). Also, "MailMerge" was a free-standing product sold by MicroPro International. Can anyone substantiate the MultiMate claim of originality? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wabernat (talk • contribs) 19:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Merge
This article has too much Original Research and would be best merged into another page, but I can't find one that would be more appropriate than the others - maybe Word processing? &#60;&#60;&#60; SOME GADGET GEEK &#62;&#62;&#62; (talk) 18:20, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose Mail merge is a pretty well known feature. This feature has been there in many word processing softwares, so it is useful as a separate article. While the article is not well references, there are some scholarly sources available for it. I found this for instance. If I have time later, I might come back and improve this. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 13:34, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
Why is the second sentence of this article "Microsoft Word can insert content from a database, spreadsheet, or table into Word documents."? It doesn't matter if it's sourced, this is just one example of a piece of software that offers Mail Merge functionality. This line should be removed, and ideally a new section should be added to perhaps list programs that offer this functionality. Leading the article with a statement that Word can do it reads like an advertisement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.19.222.5 (talk) 03:07, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

This History is Bunk!
People were doing "mail merge" on minicomputers in the Seventies. I worked at Henry Schein in 1980, where one of my duties was mail merges. They had already been doing it for a couple of years using IBM System/38s, and said they had done it before on the computer which the 38's replaced.

We would print a bunch of sticky labels, and customized letters on multi-part fanfold paper, and had "bursting" and "stuffing" machines that would collate the individualized letters into envelopes and label them. That hardware was "off the shelf" and had been in use for years for mainframes to send out billing, account statements, etc. The variation of texts was simply an adaptation of earlier software for printing account statements and putting blocks of text instead of columns of numbers. I believe that was standard IBM RPG software, although Schein's programmers may have customized it.

I was told that Publishers Clearing House, which was just up the road, was doing something similar for their mass mailings. -- Eliyahu S Talk 19:26, 17 July 2023 (UTC)