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Printing all pages, single and multiple pages
One can select the printing option as per their choice. There are three options to print the number of pages in a
document.
1. To print all the pages in sequence, choose the option All pages.
2. To print a single page, or number of non-consecutive pages, choose the option Pages, and give the page numbers
separated by comma. If you want to print the pages that are consecutive give the range of pages first and last page
(for example 3-8).
3. To print only the selected text, choose the option, Selection.
1. What is the difference between merging cells and splitting cells?
uiz Bee 2. In the Page Preview dialog box, which option is used to go to the next page in preview?
3. Describe how we can add special characters to the document.
4. Write the step to delete a row.
MAIL MERGE
Mail Merge is an important feature of any word processor document. It is the process of merging a Main Document
with the Data source file to create form letters that can be invitations, letters, mailing labels, or printing certificates for
several people.
Since the main document is merged with the mailing address hence it is named as Mail Merge. There are three
important files involved in this process:
• Main Document: It is the document that has a common letter or an invitation that needs to be sent to multiple
recipients. We can either create this before we start with the mail merge process or it can be created in the first step
of the mail merge wizard.
• Data Source: It is a data file which contains the mailing address from a database or spreadsheet or tabular data in
the OpenOffice Writer.
• Merged File/Form Letter: It is the merged document that will be obtained after the data source file and the main
document is merged during the process of Mail merge.
Let us assume that the school is planning to celebrate its annual day and wishes to invite all the parents. Writing the
same invitation letter for the annual day celebration to 2000 parents in a school will be a tedious and time-consuming
process manually.
This process is automated by sending a bulk mail to all parents in a fraction of the time by following a few steps in a
word processor as explained below.
Let us now study the steps in detail using the below steps:
Step 1: Create a new document and type the Annual Day Celebration Invite to be sent to the multiple parents.
Step 2: Save it with a name Main Document-Invite.odt.
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