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Nige - 22 Jun 2006 08:19 GMT

> My wife is a member of a Windows XP workgroup . She is continually
> creating
> mail merges and sending the mail onto everyone in the workgroup. She
> tried
> to send a mail merge recently but was warned that it was unsafe to send the
> information. She asked for the mail merge to be sent anyway. All the
> recipients received the mail merge but were unable to open the attachment
> as
> it stated that the files were corrupt. Why did this happen and is there
> anyway that she can create the merge to be viewed by the recipients?

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Graham Mayor - 22 Jun 2006 08:37 GMT

See See the article prepared by fellow MVP Doug Robbins at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

Note that uncompressed Word documents are often corrupted by the e-mail
process. Either send them as zip files or convert to PDF for which extra
software will be needed.

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>> My wife is a member of a Windows XP workgroup . She is continually
>> creating
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>> there anyway that she can create the merge to be viewed by the
>> recipients?

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