Mail merge is a powerful feature that allows you to send personalized emails to a large number of recipients without manually typing each message. While Outlook is your email client, the mail merge process is primarily driven by Microsoft Word, which then leverages Outlook to send the emails.
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Power BI Ecosystem
Microsoft Power BI is a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) tool that helps companies turn data into insights that can be used for business decision making. The Power BI ecosystem is a collection of tools and services that provide an end-to-end BI solution. With Power BI, users can connect to multiple data sources, create data models, transform data, produce eye-catching visualisations, and share insights with other teams and organisations.
You’re working on your first major Power BI report. The data is clean, the model is solid, and you’ve carefully assembled charts and tables to bring the story to life. Everything seems to be falling into place. But then comes a perfectly reasonable request from a stakeholder: