As your business has grown, you have found it increasingly hard to keep track of your mailings to your customers without using a database, so the time has come to use a database, and with it, mail merge technology. You turn to your friend Thomas, since he has been doing mail merges for a long time and can guide you in the use of this tool in Microsoft Word.
-Which of the following is NOT a true statement Thomas can make as he introduces you to merging documents?
A) As long as you use the brackets, you can type merge fields into the main document on your own.
B) A record is the information about one individual or object.
C) Each row of data in a table makes up a complete record.
D) A data source is a table of information.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The statement "As long as you use the brackets, you can type merge fields into the main document on your own" is not entirely true. While it is true that merge fields require the use of brackets, there is a specific syntax that must be followed in order to properly insert merge fields into a document. Simply typing brackets around information will not automatically create a merge field.

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