Mail merge in Word works well for letters: one document, one row of your list per copy, sent as emails through Outlook. SheetCourier is built for emails from Excel, so a few things are different.
| Word mail merge | SheetCourier | |
|---|---|---|
| Each person’s own rows of a table | Not built in (workarounds exist) | Yes, as a table in the email, a picture, a PDF or an Excel file |
| A different attachment for each person | Not built in | Yes, from a column of your list |
| Sends through | Outlook on your PC | Gmail, Outlook on this PC, Yahoo, iCloud, your own domain and more |
| Check every email before sending | Preview one at a time | A check step lists problems: missing addresses, empty fields, people without rows, missing files |
| Copy (CC) and hidden copy (BCC) per person | Not built in | Yes, from columns of your list |
| Daily limits and pace | Sends everything at once | Stops below your provider’s daily limit and sends at a calm pace |
| Send the same mailing next month | Open the document and run the merge again | Click Send again; the list is read fresh |
| Results per person | Look in Outlook’s Sent Items | History with the result for each person, exportable to Excel |
If you only need a short letter to each row of a list and you already have Word and Outlook, Word’s mail merge is fine. When each person needs their own numbers, their own file, or you send the same report every month, SheetCourier saves the manual work.