Recipients of a mail merge usually come from a list of names and data in an existing list, like an Excel spreadsheet, or your Outlook contacts list. The existing list could also be any database that you can connect to. If you don't already have a list, you can type one up in Word as part of the mail merge process. More @Wikipedia
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