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It doesn’t matter if you are sending real Christmas cards or electronic ones, Outlook can be useful to manage either. This special Christmas guide helps you prepare by using a special Christmas Category, Mail Merge tips and instructions for cards and envelopes and links to templates and pictures you can use in your design.
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Christmas Category You probably don’t send a Christmas card to all your individual contacts. In that case it is useful to tag the contacts that you want to send a Christmas card with a Category called “X-mas” or something similar. This will allow you to easily find and group these Contacts together when you want to send your card.
Tip: When you have multiple members of a single family in your Contacts folder who all live on the same address, you might want to only add one member to the “X-mas” category for a more convenient Mail Merge (for the next section). Adding the X-mas category To add an “X-mas” Category, go to your Contacts folder (keyboard shortcut CTRL+3) and perform the following action; • Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 Select a Contact-> Categorize-> All Categories-> New-> type: X-mas-> press OK• Outlook 2007 Select a contact-> Edit-> Categorize-> All Categories-> New-> type: X-mas-> press OK• Outlook 2003 Select a contact-> Edit-> Categories-> type: X-mas-> press Add to List Adding the X-mas Category to Outlook.
Once you’ve added the Category, you can select another contact (or even multiple) and add them to the X-mas Category via the list of categories in the same dialog as above or directly via the dropdown list when pressing the Categorize button. Removing someone (didn’t receive a card back?) can be done in the same way too by un-ticking the box in front of the X-mas category. Grouping by Category Now that all the people that you want to send a card to are added to the X-mas category, you can easily group them together in the following way; • Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 tab View-> Change View-> choose the “List” or “Phone” view tab View-> option group: Arrangement-> Categories• Outlook 2007 View-> Current View-> By Category• Outlook 2003 View-> Arrange By-> Current View-> By Category Grouping your Contacts by Category in the List View. Mail Merge While many people would say that a Christmas card should be a real card and written personally, the Mail Merge function can still be useful to create labels for the envelopes or even print directly to the envelopes. • How to do a mail merge is explained in.• To do a Mail Merge for just the X-Mas Category, you can use the instructions from:. For Step 1, Method 3 is probably the easiest way to go as we already grouped the contacts by Category.• For specific instructions to directly print addresses on envelopes see: • For step-by-step instructions to create envelope label stickers see: As a Greeting Line consider using the word “Family” and the variable “Last Name” so that the label says “Family Doe” instead of “John Doe”. Whether or not you are printing to labels or to the envelopes directly, I would recommend to first try it with normal paper to see if it prints out to your liking.