Mail merge - preventing me from going over to macOS

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Mail merge - preventing me from going over to macOS

I have a MacBook Pro and would love to leave windows behind.

However!!

I currently use ms mail merge to fill in documents from an excel data source, one document at a time so not a mail shot. I can not find anyway of doing anything like this in macOS.

The reason being that I may have to send 4 or 5 long documents using the same data set, that fills in name and address amongst other things.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this type of thing in macOS?

Posted on Feb 14, 2021 4:00 AM

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VikingOSX

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Feb 14, 2021 5:29 AM in response to Thinlysliced

The free LibreOffice, being an MS Office clone, can perform this functionality between its Excel compatible Calc spreadsheet, and Writer word processing application. The Writer user guide has 19 pages (Chapter 14) dedicated to Mail Merge.

Current versions of Word and Excel on macOS (either Microsoft 365, or single-purchase Office 2019 for Mac) also support this feature. Either of these solutions has been working on macOS for years.

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Feb 14, 2021 11:04 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks VikingOSX.

I will try libreoffice. I have office 365 but it is just way way too slow. Odd because everyone else on the Mac seems quicker than my Surface pro.

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