Creating letters to be used to several email address

Quite simply I want to be able to contact, via e-mail, select elements of my
customer base with a letter that inserts the name and the product they
purchased.
I'm using Excell basically to sort the information ie date of purchase, type
of purchase etc. I'm going to export the the information into Outlook, I'm
not there yet but I'm on the right track. Lastly I want to be able to create
a letter that I'll send to each customer but I want it to be able to
automatically insert the customers name and maybe some other info about
"their purchase"

Anybody doing this?
Certinally would appreciate some tips, I don't have the time to read every
thing about these programs.
Thanks
Peter

What you are describing is a mail merge. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...AMailMerge.htm

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"Peter" wrote in message
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Quite simply I want to be able to contact, via e-mail, select elements of
my
customer base with a letter that inserts the name and the product they
purchased.
I'm using Excell basically to sort the information ie date of purchase,
type
of purchase etc. I'm going to export the the information into Outlook, I'm
not there yet but I'm on the right track. Lastly I want to be able to
create
a letter that I'll send to each customer but I want it to be able to
automatically insert the customers name and maybe some other info about
"their purchase"

Anybody doing this?
Certinally would appreciate some tips, I don't have the time to read every
thing about these programs.
Thanks
Peter