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| data source | file that contains the variable information for a mail merge in TABLE form. |
| destination file | file in which you want to insert an object created with another program and in another file |
| destination program | program used to create the file in which you want to insert an object that was created using another program |
| embed | to insert a copy of an object along with a link to its source program in a destination file allowing you to edit the object using the source program’s commands |
| link | To integrate an object into a file by creating a direct connection between the source and destination files. The object exists only in one place—the source file—but the link displays the object in the destination file as well. |
| mail merge | When you merge a main document with a list of addresses from a data source |
| main document | Document in a mail merge that contains the text and other information that you want to keep the same in each merged document |
| merge fields | Fields that contain instructions for replacing field placeholders with the variable information from a data source |
| merging | Combining the main document with the data source in so that Word replaces the merge fields in the main document with the appropriate information from the data source |
| source file | File that initially contains the object being integrated into the destination file. |
| source program | Program used to create an object |
| object | Anything that can be manipulated as a whole, such as a chart, table, picture, video, sound clip, block of text, or almost anything else you can create on a computer |
