In this topic, you will be introduced to further uses of Microsoft word in word processing. Topic 3 focusses on Mail Merge, Desktop Publishing and Tests Forming using Microsoft Word software.
MAIL MERGE AND ITS APPLICATION
The Use of Mail Merge in Word Processing
Normally in typing, letters need to be typed a few times even if the contents are the same. In mail merge, one database will be ceated containing the information fields and merged with the typed letter. With this method, one letter with the same content can be sent to the various recepients recorded in the said mail merge database.
Producing a Document using the Mail Merge Feature
- Creating a Document
- Make a new file using the instructions File>New on the menu bar and subsequently type a letter for mail
- Ensure that you have allocated the required space to insert the addresses of the recipients of the
- Save the file using an appropriate
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Types of Desktop Publishing
Microsoft Word has prepared four templates for desktop publishing that are adaptable. The Template can be opened through the menu bar File>New and click General Templates on the menu New from templates. You can also make your own templates.
Principles of Desktop Publishing Design
- Interface and Column
Brochures are usually made in the form of columns that can be folded into two or three. This form is so designed to facilitate the easy reading, remembering and saving of the recipient of the information. It is also user friendly. Microsoft Word also has the facility to make more than one column in the document. The use of columns will make the brochures more readable and neat.
- Making documents with columns
- Make a new file using Microsoft
- Change the document orientation from portrait to landscape to get a brochure with three To change it, use the instruction File>Page Setup in the menu bar and the Page Setupwill be displayed.
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