How do I use a table to put info into 3 letters?

this may seem remedial, however I haven't found any help that explains the
best way to do this:

I have 3 letters, I have a list of information, in the list some items go on
1 of the letters while other items may go on all 3. So I would like to enter
the information into a chart and have it pull the infomation to the correct
letter all in the same document.
I believe this should be done as a mail merge, but don't know if it can be
done within the same document.

Please let me know if there is a good book or help site that may exlpain this.

Not sure just what you need, but will tell you that for mail merges I find
Excel to work better as a data source. On the other hand, if it's text, not
data, that you want to merge, a Word table should do it. No, you can't do it
within the same document; you need a main document and a data (source)
document from which the main doc gets its input.

Whether you use Excel or Word as the source, you must label the columns to
refer to, say, "address," "zip," "price," and other data that may vary
between letters.

"Neil Clifford" Neil wrote in message
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this may seem remedial, however I haven't found any help that explains the
best way to do this:

I have 3 letters, I have a list of information, in the list some items go
on
1 of the letters while other items may go on all 3. So I would like to
enter
the information into a chart and have it pull the infomation to the
correct
letter all in the same document.
I believe this should be done as a mail merge, but don't know if it can be
done within the same document.

Please let me know if there is a good book or help site that may exlpain
this.