April 2024 – Release notes

Doc Tools v2.1

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New features

Easy Mail Merge in Google Docs

With this spring upgrade, we welcome another tool aboard: Easy Mail Merge! Easy Mail Merge in Doc Tools for Google Docs.

Note. At the moment, the tool is available only as part of the Doc Tools collection. The standalone version is coming soon.

It lets you do a mail merge in Google Docs easily while sending personalized emails from your Gmail. Here's what you'll be able to do:

  • Craft email templates in Google Docs and connect with mailing lists from Google Sheets: Mail merge from Google Sheets to Google Docs.
  • Use column names from a mailing list to tailor your email templates and pull personalized information for each recipient, ensuring each email sent is as unique as its receiver: Create personalized email messages.
  • Send mail merge from your Gmail including attachments or directly shared personalized files: Attach or share files directly for your mail merge in Google Docs.
  • Monitor your campaign's success with simple status updates right in your mailing list: See delivery status and status details.

You will find more details on how to use this add-on and set up easy mail merges from Google Docs in this tutorial.

Improvements

Upper case support for Styles

To make your headings in all caps, you no longer need to type them this way in the document. Now you have a special button to turn your style elements to UPPERCASE: Turn selected headings to uppercase.

When importing styles, yoo can quickly locate them in your Drive by their name using the Search field at the top of the Import window: Quick search across your Drive for the styles by their names.

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