Imagine you have multiple tables of information, each serving a particular purpose, but one day, you need to somehow splice these tables together. Not only are those tables huge, but they’re not the same size, so copying and pasting the data would take forever.
What if there were a function that could do all of this for you?
What if I told you there IS a function that could do all of this for you?
I’m talking about VLOOKUP!
Let’s talk about mail merge, a technique for sending an email out to a large number of recipients while personalizing that message for each recipient. The simplest way to do a mail merge is in Microsoft Office, using a combination of Excel, Word, and Outlook.
I don’t always know why I care so much about certain things. But what I find out, time and time again, is that being able to recover and produce memories when someone needs them most is invaluable.
When I switched to all-digital rubrics a couple years ago, I wanted to reproduce the feel of writing on paper without actually using any paper.