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Rob Gibbs - 29 May 2008 06:31 GMT

I have Word 2007 and am trying to merge to email into WM or WLM (doesn't
matter to me!)

I have checked the MailTo and other things, but irrespective of how it is
set up, Word won't give me the Merge to Email Option. I do not have outlook
installed at all

So will this work or won't it, and if not, how do I avoid ANOTHER $100 to MS?

Rob

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 29 May 2008 10:56 GMT

Take a look at Method 2 in the article at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/918792

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Rob Gibbs - 29 May 2008 17:40 GMT

Hey Doug,
That worked to activate the function and I can mail merge to plain text
email...any suggestions to do HTML emails?

THANKS!
Rob

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 29 May 2008 20:29 GMT

As you have no control over how the recipient views their email, (and many
astute users will have the mail program set to view emails as plain text) I
would not bother with trying the send as html. If the appearance of what
you are sending is important, it should be sent as a .pdf attachment. An
individual file for each letter/message can be created by using the Add-in
that I have developed which is available from fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at:

http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm

If you were using Outlook, you could then "mail merge" to email with
attachments using the method in the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with
Attachments" at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

But as I don't know if that procedure can be modified for use with Windows
Mail, that may take us back to square 1.

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Rob Gibbs - 31 May 2008 15:13 GMT

It's not so much any graphics, but I use hyperlinks to direct people to my
website, however they are not URLs. I do it with anchor text to the article
title. Plain Text won't pick that up. I can change that, it seems to pick
up an acutal URL, so no big deal there, but....

Plain text also asks me for every recipient if I really want to send!
AAAAHHHH...193 emails mean's 193 clicks...any suggestions to get around that?

THANKS!
Rob

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 31 May 2008 21:57 GMT

If you look at the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with Attachments" at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

you will find a work around for hte 193 clicks.

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