About Mail Merge PDF
Which route gets you separate PDFs, and which one Word will not do at all
What is on this site
One question, "mail merge pdf", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Word mail merge to separate PDF files: Word has no button for this. The three-part workaround, the naming decision that makes it worth doing, and the Excel formatting trap that ruins large runs.
- Mail merge to PDF with Google Docs and Apps Script: The route where producing a PDF per record is an ordinary operation rather than a workaround, and the only one that runs unattended on a schedule.
- Filling a PDF form in bulk: not a mail merge: A merge builds a document from a template. Filling a form writes values into named fields in a fixed document. Which one you have decides everything.
- Merged PDFs and accessibility, which most of them fail: Section508.gov says federal policy requires agencies to prioritize HTML and use PDFs only when necessary. What that means for a merge pipeline you are about to build.
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