MS Word, Mailings merge, split into individual files

In mailings of MS Word, when you "Finish & Merge", it will generate a single file that contains all documents. By using the "outline mode", we can easily split this merged file into separate ones without any other tools

[debbiejaneanora]

Thank you so much for this! This is very helpful. Like everyone else here on the comment section, mine also had a letter head. After following the video, my letter head was gone! What I did to resolve the issue was, I saved my letter head as picture (not as a header), I then added a mailmerge field before the picture and set that as "heading", if you don't want that to be visible, you can always change the font color to white :) It worked fine! Thank you again!

[ikesinachiajah]

Oh my!! Words will never be enough to express how I feel about this.. I used to split hundreds of pages until I discovered mailing tab, NOW YOU HAVE MADE IT EASIER WITH HEADINGS. Thank you much sir

[nazareno]

Great video. One quick tips: make sure you remove any dots from each heading if you want the documents to be saved properly. For example, it the headings read "Dr. Smith", "Dr. Guzman, " etc. Before you click on Show Document and then Create, go heading by heading and remove the dots so it reads "Dr Smith", "Dr Guzman" etc. Otherwise when you save the documents the file names will all be Dr1, Dr2 etc.

[hitstheatre]

It is nice that you can describe so succinctly what others cannot. This is a life saver. Thank you.

[nharzic]

Thank you so much for posting this. I cannot believe after all these years I have finally discovered this technique. So helpful.

[jenniferfisher]

This is incredibly helpful!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for years, and all suggestions lead to add-ins that I'm not allowed to install on my work computer. This is a fantastic alternative. Thank you!!!

[SarahIsTheBest]

Where has this information been all my life! Thank you so much!

[joyqyl]

Very helpful, thank you. Your tutorial made me realise that adding a heading is critical in saving as individual files. Thanks again.

[alanah]

This was a huge help - thank you very much for the quick and simple tutorial. My only criticism is that you cannot automate separate files to go to individual recipients (but that's on MS Word, not you). You have saved me so much time. Thanks!

[ralucadudescu]

How smart!!!! Thank you. Pls be kind to also show us how you eliminated the blank page. Looking forward to more videos with tips and tricks.

[AnaValentina]

You are genius!! Thank you so much--and your English is fantastic!

[MoniqueMasonplanrightEvents]

You saved the Now I just need them to save as PDF's not Word docs. THANK YOU!

[windroselawcenterPLC]

This saved me SO much time. THANK YOU!!!

[danielleoberbeck]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[pennylow]

Hi there, thank you for the detailed explanation. I have tried it but it ended up that the save file came out only with 1 file instead of the multiple individual files. I have followed the steps one by one, are there any steps that I missed?

[benbassatush]

this is really helpful! one question - for some reason the there is an extra empty page in the end of each separate document. do you know maybe how to solve that?

[benhart]

Thank you for making this so clear and easy to follow. You have saved me lots of time!

[dariodibarbara]

Thank you very much ! It works fine (even if for Mac it's not exactly the same as for PC)
Well done !

[bethvandemore]

Thank you for this! I looked everywhere to learn this and your explanation was perfectly clear!

[jillybeanc]

Thank you!! PS: Your English was totally fine!