Mail merge guides
How to get one document per row out of a spreadsheet, and what each way of doing it costs you.
4 September 2026
Mail merge to PDFs with the right file names
Word names merged files by counting. The workarounds people use to get real names — an invisible heading split by bookmark, a macro, cutting every N pages — why each one breaks, and what to name the files from instead.
Read →26 August 2026
Mail merge without uploading your data
Most tools ask you to upload the spreadsheet and the template. Why they need to, what it means for the names and figures in your rows, and how to check any tool for yourself in about ten seconds.
Read →26 August 2026
Google Docs mail merge to individual PDF files
Google Docs has no mail merge that produces one file per row. The three ways round it — an add-on, a script, or generating from the sheet directly — and what each one costs you.
Read →25 August 2026
Word mail merge to individual PDF files
Word merges to one document holding every record, not one file per record. Three ways to get a PDF per row instead, and a walkthrough of the one that needs no macros.
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