Editing Mail merge (section)

==History==
Mail merge dates back to early word processors on personal computers, circa 1980.<ref name=WS.manual>see p. 2-2; MailMerge not a new feature, and this is 2nd Ed, (C) 1982 {{cite web |quote=TRADEMARKS ... MailMerge
|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microPro/Wordstar_3.3/Wordstar_Training_Guide_2ed_Feb83.pdf
|title=WordStar Training Guide (2ed Feb83) (C) 1982}}</ref> [[WordStar]]<ref name=WS.manual/><ref>"M Run Mail Merge. S Run SpellStar"</ref> was perhaps<ref>WinWorldPC citation says "the first"</ref> the earliest to provide this,<ref>{{cite web  |title=Software Spotlight: WordStar |website=WinWorld PC
|url=https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/10379/software-spotlight-wordstar
|quote=WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge}}</ref> originally via an ancillary program called Mail merge. [[WordPerfect]] also offered this capacity for CP/M and [[MS-DOS]] systems;<ref>{{cite web |title=I Love WordPerfect Contest
|url=https://learn.corel.com/i-love-wordperfect-contest
|quote=I was introduced to Wordperfect DOS when I bought my first computer in college. ... I have watched WordPerfect evolve from the ancient MS-DOS ...}}</ref> [[Microsoft Word]] added it later on,<ref>{{cite web|title=WordStar MailMerge|date = 29 April 1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmtbry-ytXgC&dq=mail+merge+dos&pg=PA168|access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref>
as did [[Multimate]].<ref>"Early" magazine articles about Multimate's Mail Merge were largely 1988-1990"</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=PC Magazine |date=February 29, 1988 |page=222
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmNNyCje8oAC |title=dBase, MultiMate: Mailmerge
|quote=... a must for dBASE users who need to mailmerge ... MultiMate Advantage II's mail-merge capabilities work nicely with dBASE.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld
|date=January 23, 1989  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzoEAAAAMBAJ
|title=Multimate Mail Merge}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld |date=January 29, 1990
|page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjAEAAAAMBAJ |title=MultiMate V4.0
|quote=Multimate, Version 4.0 This significant upgrade ... a strong performer when producing office correspondence and mail merge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Variable Data Processor|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdprocessor|access-date=8 November 2020}}</ref>