Where are the Recipients?
By default Microsoft Word is looking for databases. The browser may
display the option to Connect to a New Data Source or NewSQLServer.
This is useful to know, but it is not where we are headed right now.
In this example, we already have a data source: our
Friends and Family spreadsheet in Excel.
Look at All Data Sources: Microsoft Excel
is just one of many, many Data Sources you can use in a Mail Merge.