{"id":2498,"date":"2019-03-22T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:24:44","slug":"get-to-know-word-and-excel-mail-merge-even-if-youre-not-mailing-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Word and Excel &#8211; Mail Merge, even if you&#8217;re not mailing anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applying for jobs?\u00a0 Applying for clerkships?\u00a0\u00a0Just have data in a spreadsheet that you would like to merge into a contract or other document?\u00a0\u00a0Let Microsoft Office and Excel do the hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Using the mail merge feature of Microsoft Word can save you a lot of time and potential mistakes.\u00a0\u00a0By linking documents together, you can produce professional documents and letters in no time.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Richmond has partnered with Lynda.com\u00a0to provide short training videos.\u00a0\u00a0Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Word-tutorials\/Perform-mail-merge-using-contacts-Excel\/571619\/766956-4.html\">this<\/a> short video on merging using Word and Excel.<\/p>\n<p>Have a question on how to let Microsoft Office work for you?\u00a0\u00a0Email <a href=\"kedwards@richmond.edu\">Kim Edwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Helpful Tech\u00a0Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.richmond.edu\/library\/technology-services.html\">Law School Technology Services<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/is.richmond.edu\/email\/device-configuration\/index.html\">Configuring Your Devices for Email Access<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/box.richmond.edu\">Box<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/lynda.richmond.edu\">Lynda<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law2.richmond.edu\/netbalance\">Print Credit Balance<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/law.richmond.edu\/students\/index.html\">Law Student Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying for jobs?\u00a0 Applying for clerkships?\u00a0\u00a0Just have data in a spreadsheet that you would like to merge into a contract or other document?\u00a0\u00a0Let Microsoft Office and Excel do the hard work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3008,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/lawlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}