Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.

Personalize Word documents with the Mail Merge toolbar Forget the form letters--Mail Merge is a handy tool for personalizing handouts, business documents, or anything you'd like to distribute by name.

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

The next time you need to generate dozens of letters, labels, or even emails, relax. Let Word's mail merge feature do the work for you.

The names of these merge fields correlate with field names in a list document that you create in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, or through a form built in to the mail merge process in Word.

Mail merge is a powerful tool available in Microsoft Word that helps create a set of documents that are the same, but each document contains its own unique elements. A good example of this is ...

Create an address list using the Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word when you need to print labels for a mass mailing. Mail Merge enables you to input your address list in a spreadsheet format ...

Outlook Categories aren't just for organizing. Susan Harkins show you how to use Outlook Categories to selectively merge contact information with a Word document.

I actually tried something like that at work in Word 2003 but it didn't seem to work, however, I just tried it at home on Word 2003 and it works fine so maybe I got the "syntax" or spacing of the ...