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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / November 2006mail merge with attachment using outlook express
i want to mail merge with pdf attachment using oulook express. i am just wondering whether it is possible with outlook express. also there is no email option when i start mail merge from tools menu. any help would be highly appreciated. thanks >i want to mail merge with pdf attachment using oulook express. i am just > wondering whether it is possible with outlook express. 1. Not "out of the box". 2. Most of the easily available macro code relies on the ability to automate the full Outlook. If you do not have Outlook, you would probably have to use a macro that sent e-mails directly via MAPI or SMTP. 3. How I would approach this would depend on whether I wanted to attach the same .pdf to every e-mail, or a different .pdf to each e-mail. If it is the same, it may not be too hard to generate the e-mails via mailmerge, then manually attach the same .pdf to each e-mail. It depends on how many you want to send. If it is a different .pdf for each message and you have a lot of messages, that could be a lot of work, in which case it may be cheaper to buy the full Outlook or some other software to do it (it depends on how you cost your time). > also there is no email option when i start mail merge from tools menu. > any help would be highly appreciated. If it is /just/ when you "start mail merge from tools menu then the following may not be enough, but I would start here: http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk/t0002.htm Peter Jamieson >i want to mail merge with pdf attachment using oulook express. i am just > wondering whether it is possible with outlook express. > also there is no email option when i start mail merge from tools menu. > any help would be highly appreciated. > thanks hi peter, thanks a lot for your in depth information. i just want to clear one doubt regarding manually attaching the pdf file.whether i have to merge to the document and then copy and paste individual emails to my email program like outlook and manually attaching the pdf file,. or i have to merge to email and then manually add the pdf file at some stage .can you please provide further help . thanks shahid > >i want to mail merge with pdf attachment using oulook express. i am just > > wondering whether it is possible with outlook express. [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > any help would be highly appreciated. > > thanks Hello Shahid, > i just want to clear one doubt regarding manually attaching the pdf 1. A lot depends on which e-mail client you are using. Because there are so many different possibilities, it is impossible to say exactly how things will work with the software you have. 2. I suggest you experiment with a small number of addressees (usually you can include yourself). 3. If you are using the full Outlook (not Outlook Express), you should be able to use Doug Robbins' approach at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm 4. if you can not use the full Outlook, everything is much harder, as I have tried to explain. But: ao you have one .pdf file that you want to attach to every outgoing e-mail? In other words, the attachment is the same for every e-mail? Or do you have a different .pdf file to attach to each outgoing e-mail? Peter Jamieson > hi peter, > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >> > any help would be highly appreciated. >> > thanks hi peter i want to attach same pdf file to all outgoing emails. > Hello Shahid, > [quoted text clipped - 74 lines] > >> > any help would be highly appreciated. > >> > thanks To do it with Outlook Express, you can try: a. ensure that OE cannot send mail b. do the merge tocreate items in the Out basket c. manually open each item in the Out basket, attach the .pdf and click the Send button d. allow OE to send mail again e. send. There are probably several ways to do (a) but disconnecting your computer from the Internet is is probably the simplest. Peter Jamieson > hi peter > [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] >> >> > any help would be highly appreciated. >> >> > thanks |
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