Owner's manual

Beyond the basics 9-23
To merge data, follow these general steps:
1. Set up a database. You can have a database of names and addresses, items and
prices, clients and facts about them, or any other categories of information you
want to merge with text. Be sure to save the database. Mail merge only works
with database documents that are saved to disk.
2. Prepare a merge document or frame. Enter the text that is common to all the
printed documents in a document or frame, and then enter field variables where
you want to insert information from the database.
3. Print the merge document with the database information inserted.
Each of these steps is described in the following sections.
Field data to
merge
Merge document
Placeholder
Result of mail merge
Database