Mail merge and fillable forms
Mail merge joins one letter to a list of people, printing a personal copy for each: one template, many letters. A fillable form lets people type answers into boxes on screen. Paper 1 asks which feature puts individual names into a primary document: mail merge.
By the end of this page you can
- Explain the primary document, data file and field names
- Choose content controls for an online form
- Put the steps of a mail merge in order
- Answer mail merge and form questions
Goals tick themselves off as you try the activities below.
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Hundreds of letters, each with its own name and address, from one document and one list.
How often it shows up in past papers
All papers5 of 14 papers
Last 54 of 5 · 2019–2025
Paper 1 counts come from our past-paper bank of CSEC Information Technology Paper 1s. The last-5 row shows how often it came up in the five most recent papers.
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