Advantages and Disadvantages of Mail Merge

Disadvantages of Mail Merge

•The letter sounds generic to the customer.

•Information in the database needs to be kept up to date.

•Mail merge is used for fraudulent purposes and for junk mail.

•If you edit the database it can cause it to fail.

•It’s easy to make mistakes.

Advantages of Mail Merge

•Time saving as it does lots of letters.

•It is quick and easy to do.

•Easy to store the information.

•Only one letter needed to be created.

Advantages and disadvantages of transition effects

Automatic- Advantages

•Makes the slideshow more interesting.

•Make it look more professional.

•Best used when there is no-one presenting it.

Automatic- Disadvantages

•Takes a while to add all of the effects to the slideshow.
 •Can distract the audience from the information. 
•The speaker cannot stop the presentation when they want, not good for a speech.

Manual- Advantages

•Quicker to make
 •You can move on when you want- more control 
•Best for a speech, questions can be answered when required. 

Manual- Disadvantages 

•Can be boring- no effects. 
•Need to click it, needs a presenter