Donor Data For Mail Merge

When preparing a merge file for a mail merge in Word, you should use the steps outlined in the topic on exporting donor data to a file. In particular, you should use the tab-delimited text (TXT) file format. Word will work directly with a file in this format to be used as the data source for your form letter. Some people prefer to export to Excel, and then do their mail merge from there, but that is actually an extra unnecessary step.