Pumping Up The Volume With Angie!

This has been my best friend for the past couple of weeks. This is Angie, your Scheduling and Logistics director sharing with you the beauties of excel and mail merge.

I’m counting down the days until Comm Week and with another day approaches comes new and interesting challenges as S & L director. First off, up there is a screen shot of the speaker database our hard working task force has built. As of now, we have over 70 speakers! And that is a major accomplishment. Using this spreadsheet is the hub of the information for Comm Week. It is where the other committees obtain information about the speakers and their presentations. Our database guru is Keoni, and his hard work is shown through all the details of this database.

The beauty of the database is that it has helped me become a pro at mail merge. What mail merge does is takes all this information in the databases and cranks out new documents such as nametags, letters and mailing addresses that are accurate. This saves us time from typing each person’s name. And boy it’s been my second best friend. I’ve had to mail merge address labels, letters and emails. Can you imagine actually typing up 70 letters? But thanks to mail merge, I was able to work through all these docs in shorter time.

I know most of these docs are tedious to do and compile. But it is a piece of what makes Comm Week a success. It’s the glue that holds all the information together. Without these small, finer details, many other things would not happen like website updates or faculty confirmation letters or signage.

Now, off to do some confirmation letters! This is your S & L Director signing off! See you at Comm Week!