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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2006How can I send 100 email using contact and BCC
Before I post my question I checked to see if I can find my answer in forum. I noticed most of responses are like argument or discussion when the enquirer needed step by step direction such as (just example): go on inbox, click on new, type email address in To and click send, so you can send e-mail in outlook. Please let me know step by step how can I send 100 emails that I have in my contact under Architects sub-title, using BCC. I use outlook, part of office 2003. Regards Ali Zohouri zohouri@msn.com First, tell us why you want to send one message using Bcc rather than sending 100 individual messages that, because they're not sent Bcc, are more likely to get through the recipients' spam filter?  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Before I post my question I checked to see if I can find my answer in forum. > I noticed most of responses are like argument or discussion when the enquirer [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Ali Zohouri zohouri@msn.com Hi Sue; I am part of GTHBA in Toronto, Canada and I have e-mail of 800 members in my contact (outlook) list. I can send each of them a separate email but I have to send 800 separate emails. I type my Email address in To box assuming they realize that is me sending e-mail to them. And I put their address in BCC so all of them will receive my e-mail. I separate 800 to 8 list of 100 names in contact section and I named each section as Architect1, Architect2, and so on. Please direct me step by step. Also please tell me if there is better way to save time. Ali Zohouri > First, tell us why you want to send one message using Bcc rather than sending 100 individual messages that, because they're not sent Bcc, are more likely to get through the recipients' spam filter? > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > Ali Zohouri zohouri@msn.com IMO, the best way to perform a bulk mailing like that is to use a mail merge. This ensures that each person gets an email message addressed to them -- not to you -- which increases the chance that it will get through their spam filter. And it's one operation, not 8. These pages should help you get started: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011866951033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010427871033.aspx SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue; I am part of GTHBA in Toronto, Canada and I have e-mail of 800 > members in my contact (outlook) list. I can send each of them a separate [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > >> > Ali Zohouri zohouri@msn.com > Before I post my question I checked to see if I can find my answer in > forum. I noticed most of responses are like argument or discussion [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > under Architects sub-title, using BCC. I use outlook, part of office > 2003. Open your Contacts folder. Select all the contacts under Architects. Click Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. SignatureBrian Tillman Hi Brian: Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue belives using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. I tried and I merged my letter with selected addresses in contact. This process done successfully then I could not figure out how to use it to send email for those addresses. I opened contact, selected Architects,Tools>Merge>on Mail Merge Contacts selected"only selected contacts, contact fields in current view, existing document, Brows (selected a letter that I wanted to send to Architects), Form letters, Merge to E-mail, I wrote subject line and clicked OK. Word opened with the letter to architects and I checked Mail Merge Receipients was ok. Question? What would be the next step. Did I do anything wronge? In word I went to File>send to>Mail Recipient. It didn't work and I didn't have any e-mail address in To. > > Before I post my question I checked to see if I can find my answer in > > forum. I noticed most of responses are like argument or discussion [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select > everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. Look on the mail merge toolbar. There's a button for merge to email next to the buttons for merge to print and merge to new documents. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Brian: Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue belives > using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. I tried and I merged my [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select >> everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. Thanks Sue, I found merge to email button. I clicked on it, I got pop up "merge to email". To ? I know I have correct contacts in Merge. What should I put there? Mail format? My document is one page letter so I put "plain text".From, To (smaller boxes) I guss means from page 1 to page 1 (1 & 1),click Ok. Am I in the right track? It did not work! Ali Zohouri > Look on the mail merge toolbar. There's a button for merge to email next to the buttons for merge to print and merge to new documents. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >> Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select > >> everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. > Thanks Sue, I found merge to email button. I clicked on it, I got pop up > "merge to email". To ? I know I have correct contacts in Merge. What should I > put there? If you browse through the drop-down list, you should notice that it's a list of the fields in your Outlook contacts. You have a choice of Email, Email_2, and Email_3 (among other fields). These correspond to the three email addresses you can have for each contact. Generally, you'll choose Email. > Mail format? My document is one page letter so I put "plain text". You should choose HTML so that the message will look like you've formatted in Word and so that you can avoid security prompts. > From, To (smaller boxes) I guss means from page 1 to page 1 (1 & 1), No, those controls refer not to the number of pages but the number of merge records. (Note the "Send records" heading.) Since you've already selected your contacts in Outlook, you normally would leave those controls blank and instead choose All Records (the default) so that Word can create a message for each selected contact. > click Ok. Am I in the right track? It did not work! Yes, when you click OK, Word will start creating the messages. Before you click OK, you may want to use the File | Work Offline command in Outlook (if available) to take Outlook offline or disconnect the computer from the network so you can see the messages stack up in your Outbox folder in Outlook. Try it with a small test of 2-3 contacts first so that you can get the hang of it. > Ali Zohouri > >> Look on the mail merge toolbar. There's a button for merge to email next to the buttons for merge to print and merge to new documents. >> > Hi Brian: Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue belives >> > using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. I tried and I merged my [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select >> >> everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. Thanks Sue, you are great, problem solved Ali zohouri > > Thanks Sue, I found merge to email button. I clicked on it, I got pop up > > "merge to email". To ? I know I have correct contacts in Merge. What should I [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > >> >> Action>New Message to Contacts. When the Compose window appears, select > >> >> everything in the To field and drag it to the Bcc field. You're nearly there: select people, Tools | Mailmerge | to email | write the subject line | OK Word starts up use Insert Merge Fields to add fields from your Contacts (NOT the Insert Word Fields button). The ABC button (on the toolbar) will show your merged data. Along to the right on the toolbar is a Merge To Email button. Use that to start the merge. On the next popup window just click Enter/OK (whatever it says!). Done! Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook Acorn Training and Consulting Canberra, Australia see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity: www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm > Hi Brian: Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue belives > using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. I tried and I merged my [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > -- > > Brian Tillman Tanks Judy. I clicked on "insert>Field> How can I add field from contact? I have Categories, Field names, Formula button and field codes in this pop up. By the way, I also clicked on "Merge to email" button and on the next popup just clicked Ok, I got another popup said "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in outlook, do you want to allow this? Anyway I cliked ok and I got another popup "check names?". Ali zohouri > You're nearly there: > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > > -- > > > Brian Tillman You add the Contact fields as I described. Insert Merge Field. You'll get a pop up of all available Contact Fields (including any user defined ones). Write some words, then Insert Merge Fields , write some more words, insert another field etc to make your email. Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook Acorn Training and Consulting Canberra, Australia see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity: www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfdocs/ProductivITwithOutlook.pps www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm > Tanks Judy. I clicked on "insert>Field> How can I add field from contact? I > have Categories, Field names, Formula button and field codes in this pop up. [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] > > > > -- > > > > Brian Tillman Thanks Judy, you are great, problem solved. > You're nearly there: > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > > -- > > > Brian Tillman > Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue > belives using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. Well, so do I, but I was answering your specific question. SignatureBrian Tillman Thanks Brian, problem solved > > Thanks for direction using BCC, it was usefull. However Sue > > belives using Mail Merge is better way and I agree with her. > > Well, so do I, but I was answering your specific question. |
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